Interactive Marquee?

[Chez 0]

I have a bottom->top marque using simple HTML which displays recent news headlines on my news page. It is written as follows:

<marquee scrollamount="1" scrolldelay="10" direction="up" width="360" height="50" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt">text
</marquee>

1 is the slowest I can get it, but it still runs pretty fast. just fast enough so that you rush to read a short sentence (it's only 75px high in my page). Any way to slow it more? Tried giving it a decimal, but it only reads ints. Also, I would like to pause this marquee when someone pressed a "pause" button outside the marquee. Then start it again once they repress it. Any way to pass this to a HTML marque or will I need to get a javascript scroller? recommend any? link?

[jlhaslip 4]

I used that tag to build a sample page and found that: yes, it was a bit quick. Increasing the height of the section helped to make it a little easier to read, but depending on the page layout you desire, it might not fit your page.Couple of quick comments about the marquee tag:1. It is a proprietory tag, therefore, might not be available in all Browsers.2. It is not listed at the w3schools.com reference page for Html tags, so it isn't recognized by the w3 Standards.3. javascript is turned off on approx 20% of Browsers these days, so javascript may not be the best solution.Considering all of the above, how do you plan on presenting the information if a client doesn't use a correct browser or has javascript turned off?There are similar issues using Java. Not everyone has it installed or allowed.

[webmaster_2006 0]

Good points jlhaslip. The only problem is: only, roughly of 15% of all internet users turn off their Java, and most people do have it installed. If you want to risk using it Chez, go ahead, because it won't affect most of your users.

[Chez 0]

It's actually for my personal webpage. chez.trap17.com will be host for both my design business/web templates and personal webpage. The only javascript at the business end of the stick will be DHTML navigation. But as for my site, everyone who'll be visiting that uses firefox with java enabled, so it's all good.

[Tyssen 0]

The only javascript at the business end of the stick will be DHTML navigation.  But as for my site, everyone who'll be visiting that uses firefox with java enabled, so it's all good.

How do you know everyone will be using Firefox with js enabled? There's no way you can possibly know that unless you hand out invitations to your site and password protect it to prevent people who aren't invited using it.
As for using js for navigation, if you decide to go down that route, then you need fallback measures in place for those people who do have js turned off or they won't be able to access areas of your site.
If this is just a personal site, then it probably doesn't matter so much, but if you're intending it to be a business site, you're effectively losing customers by not covering all the bases.

[Chez 0]

How do you know everyone will be using Firefox with js enabled? There's no way you can possibly know that unless you hand out invitations to your site and password protect it to prevent people who aren't invited using it.

As for using js for navigation, if you decide to go down that route, then you need fallback measures in place for those people who do have js turned off or they won't be able to access areas of your site.

If this is just a personal site, then it probably doesn't matter so much, but if you're intending it to be a business site, you're effectively losing customers by not covering all the bases.

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lol, my personal site will only be visited by my friend's, family, random stalkers. and of those people who make up 95% of my audience, they all use firefox with js enabled, yes. I know this for a fact. We're the smart croud who forsook anything MS a long time ago. As for the 5% stalkers who may or may not have js enabled, all they'll be missing out on is a little news headline marquee. They will still be able to use the rest of the site.

 

As for the business side, I always place simple HTML auxillery links at the bottom of the page just in case images/javascript/CSS/etc don't work for them. It's standard practice for me.

 

As for whether or not I should even use javascript in the first place, well... it comes down to the design itself. Some of my designs look great without one non-HTML code segment in the entire source code. Others require a bit more interactivity. but with the majority of people running js-enabled browsers, it's not that big of deal. There are only a small percentage of people I've ever encountered who run without javascript, and that is mainly because they want to browse faster, in which case, they won't be browsing sites like mine, if you know what i mean err... clarification: heavy-scripted sites, online gaming clan sites, interactive online movie sites, etc. etc.