News Ticker

[TheChill_com]

Does anyone know of a good news ticker type thing? somewhat like http://www.nba.com but not totally. I would perfer if it were not a java applet--as those tend to take awhile to load. Any help would be appriciated.

[FatPiper]

The only other way I could think of doing it other then Java is using a <marquee></marquee> tag on some SSI'd file off of a website that provides the java marquee (if you check the source, sometimes it references a file that it updates or something.)
The code would look something like this:

<marquee><!--#include virtual="http://you.thing.com/foo/news.txt"--></marquee>

THIS ONLY WORKS IN IE, though, so I would recommend just using an applet instead. As for people who provide them, the only one I know of is http://www.moreover.net (advertised on SitePoint.com), and they don't do tickers but real news page that plugin to your site.

Good luck on your search, though!

[Ace Nova]

its http://www.moreover.com/ and their news feeds use javascript.

[Fluffykins]

This isn't really a ticker-tape, but uses layers and DHTML to change news items... I dunno what feeds are available though...

http://webreference.com/headlines/nh/flipper/ and http://webreference.com/headlines/nh/.

It seems to be mostly Internet Related stuff, but you might be able to adapt it.

Ady

[mjames]

You can probably find a ticker customizeable code at http://www.dynamicdrive.com - I have a headlines ticker that we offer to other sites on my page and we got it from there.