Comments on: TickerTape: Scrolling tickers in JavaScript

By: dmaaaton

dmaaaton — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:33:36 +0000

hi , i need a tickertape.php example please .Thanks!

new TickerTape(‘tickertape.php’, ‘myTickerTape’, 5000);

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:09:46 +0000

Jordan, there are a number of benefits over the marquee, tag however the main one would be that the data does not all have to be preloaded – the component can grab pages of data from the server when required.

By: Photo Flock

Photo Flock — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:45:35 +0000

Geez! I am just trying to type “marquee” with brackets around it!

By: Photo Flock

Photo Flock — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:44:34 +0000

… but this is a variation on

(the tag was parsed in the last post)

By: Photo Flock

Photo Flock — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:43:02 +0000

Jordan – that’s what I thought too but this is a variation on

Check out the demo and you’ll see what I mean. Nice little widget.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:02:32 +0000

Doesn’t this just try to re-create the marquee tag? Why reinvent the wheel when the marquee tag is supported by IE and Firefox.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:17:29 +0000

Thanks Gilles! Regarding the comment in the post:

It would benefit from not scrolling while you have you mouse inside

I agree. I will try and sort that out for the next release – I’d also like it to be able to scroll vertically too, so look out for those features in the next week or so.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:07:41 +0000

Works like a charm, giving it 5 stars!

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:54:07 +0000

Version 1.01 fixes the Firefox problem:

http://colinramsay.co.uk/2007/04/24/tickertape-v101/

If you’ve visited the demo before, you need to clear your cache to see this update. I’d really appreciate it if you could update your post to reflect this change.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:33:10 +0000

The demo works in Firefox when you refresh – I’m looking into a solution for this now and will post a new release when I have fixed it.