Thanks, I'm afraid though that as the site is hosted on fairly simple
and basic hosting I can't have server side processing as such - the
use of the ticker is a fairly whimsical thing for me too, I'm only
putting in on a kind of information feed page.
The ticker won't be in the way visually, it'll actually be
specifically located on a page where you'd expect this kind of thing.
I've hunted through webdeveloper.com but I can't find the kind of
thing I'm looking for, the only ones I can find use either internal
content or take content from fairly simple but proprietary page
structures, I would have assumed it to be a fairly small leap to jump
to one that takes RSS but I've never been able to find one.
On 26 Apr 2004 16:14:28 GMT, "Philipp Lenssen" <in**@outer-court.com>
wrote:
dt******@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for an applet or script to feed from an RSS page (perhaps
RSS 0.91) and turn its <title> and <link> entries (perhaps using
<description> as well) into a scrolling news ticker where the ticker
will pause when you move your mouse over a news item and clicking on
that item would jump to the hyperlink in the RSS page.
Can anyone recommend a freeware horizontal news ticker that can do
this?
You could do it server-side, I suggest MagpieRSS, then do whatever you
want to do in HTML (e.g. marquee-tag -- ugh! -- or use any Java-applet
ticket, or us some JavaScript). Then again do people really like
tickers? I find them sort of ugly.
Also, Mark Pilgrim has a nice Python reader, I suppose it's nice as it
claims to be universal (i.e. understand all 32 different RSS flavors).
Also, take a look <http://www.webdeveloper.com> if you really can't
resist doing it client-side... maybe something's there for you. Also
there's <http://www.rssnewsticker.com/> ...
