Freeware text scroller - animated gif, not javascript

anyone know of one?

[martinbsp]

Hi

I'm looking for a freeware package that will allow me to create scrolling headlines (containing my own text), as well as the HTML code that (supposedly) supports this.

I'm aware of plenty of Java applets that will do this but I'm looking for a something that will create this as a GIF (must be a GIF file).

Any ideas? It needs to be free - our Credit Union doesn't have funds at the moment.

I should mention that I (we) have no programming knowledge.

Thanks

Martin

[tedster]

Sorry, but I doubt that such an application exists - at least not one that is dedicated to scrolling text.

First, while it can be done, an animated gif would use a lot of bandwidth as a text scroller - the pixels will shift from frame to frame as the text "moves" -- and so any pixel based solution is not going to compress very well. (As an aside, for a gif, there is no special html code required - you just place the .gif file in the html document.)

The best GRAPHIC solution from a bandwidth point-of-view would probably be Flash, but that's definitely not free.

However, you still don't need a java applet -- text scrollers can also be done with javascript - a very different technology. Lot's of "javascript text scrollers" show up on any search, the scripts are free and the bandwidth required is minimal.

[c3oc3o]

What you're actually looking for is the <marquee> tag. You need neither gifs not JS nor Java for this.

<marquee>This text scrolls</marquee>

[henry0]

Since I never used it I gave it a try
works OK in IE, however NN 6.2 is a big no!

(Did not perform further tests)

[c3oc3o]

Here's which browsers have supported the marquee tag since when:

Internet Explorer 3.0, 1996
Mozilla 1.0.1, September 2002
Netscape 7.0, September 2002
Opera 7.2, September 2003
Safari 1.2, February 2004

Netscape 6.2 is a completely irrelevant piece of legacy software.

[henry0]

“Irrelevant” if you design for an elite “download thirsty” group

[martinbsp]

Does the Marquee tag support Firefox?

Come to think of it, is there a huge difference between Netscape and Firefox?

I'm still using Mosaic which I've ported over to successive harddrives since it first appeared on my (very old) 286 with an orange screen!

[c3oc3o]

lol@Mosaic

Firefox has, of course, supported marquee since its early betas, since Firefox 0.1 came out around the same time as Mozilla 1.0.1, and the Mozilla Suite and Firefox share(d) the same rendering engine.

And Netscape 6.x is irrelevant any way you look at it.
Even the thecounter.com global stats give that browser only a fifth of the market share IE 4 still has, a third of that of Netscape Navigator 4 and less than Linux-only Konqueror. In other words, within the rounding error of "none whatsoever".

Add to that the fact that <marquee> degrades perfectly all the way to Lynx and Mosaic...