Clair - 2:56 pm on May 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi Microdot==
(Love your name!)

I went to the BBC page and it was very interesting. The news ticker at the top is close, but not what I want. I got excited because the little Listen Live button above that actually performs the way I want when you first load the page-- the whole item scrolls smoothly in from the right, followed by the next one and so on.

However, the ticker that they do have is quite nice. If it's not a big deal, I would love to know how that one works! I figure the more pieces of information I have, as well as practice, will make my project easier in the long run.

If you just add the subdir /blog to the url that is listed in my profile, you will see what I am using there. That's not where I want the long ticker, for design reasons. (The one there is the Advanced RSS Ticker from the dynamic drive site. And, it was close, with being able to format borders, size, type, etc., but of course, no scrolling.

Anyway, I'm really enjoying the JS class I'm taking, -- determination is the mother of learning! or something like that anyway.

I have a bare page with nothing but the ticker I want on it using the marquee code that Jim (from here) sent me -- it functions correctly, but I can't yet figure out how to get it to use a feed -- hence the JS class and the XML books. Again if you just add /ticker2 to my url, you can see it. All the code is in the page, (I was hoping someone would ask to see it, but no one ever did.) This is the one that I referred to in my first msg. as being so close it hurt.

Anyway, I do like the BBC ticker! Perhaps I'll start collecting them. lol

Thanks again for your interest, Micro --
Clair