Email conversation
| From | Mark Lee |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | RSS Scroller |
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| Date | 25 August 2005 06:59 |
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Hello Mark,
I've been searching for an RSS scroller and found reference to one among the
emails. However, I can't locate the download link.
I'd appreciate receiving a copy of the scroller package.
Thanks.
Mark Lee.
| From | Mark Lee |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: RSS Scroller |
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| Date | 25 August 2005 20:52 |
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OK. I get the picture now.
Thanks for your very prompt response. I did eventually locate the scroller
AND the RSS this morning but then went off on a job hunt.
What Andy is doing is prezactly what I'd like. I now use a horizontally
scrolling script I found at http://www.mioplanet.com/ and a parser at
www.richardjameskendall.com. Being a novice, I don't know how to tinker with
the JavaScript to make it scroll vertically.
Is Andy's modification of yours available for download?
BTW, when the script prompt pops up on clicking "Go" on the RSS demo page
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/rss.html, I can't see the
text after "challenge:" so I don't know what to input to see the demo in
action.
I'm using IE6 with XP service pack 2 and the screen resolution is set at
1024 x 768.
Regards,
Mark.
| From | Me |
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| To | Mark Lee |
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| Subject | Re: RSS Scroller |
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| Date | 25 August 2005 22:55 |
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Mark,
> Is Andy's modification of yours available for download?
Yup. I have had so many requests for this now I have added a version that
does this into the downloadable zip package on:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/rss.html
> BTW, when the script prompt pops up on clicking "Go" on the RSS demo page,
> I can't see the text after "challenge:" so I don't know what to input to
> see the demo in action.
>
> I'm using IE6 with XP service pack 2 and the screen resolution is set at
> 1024 x 768.
Heh, that's ugly. Seems IE has a limitation in its prompt dialogs. Oh well,
if you will use such a crappy browser... ;)
Anyway, I have fixed it now.
| From | Mark Lee |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: RSS Scroller |
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| Date | 25 August 2005 23:19 |
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Mark,
Thanks again Mark.
I'm stuck with Windoze because I do a bit of media work with audio, video
and page layout so I have to be compatible with others in the stream. In
fact I had, unfortunately, to scrub my Linux partition two days ago to make
room on my HD for some video. If/when I get another box it'll be dedicated
to Linux. (Also have probs with our broadband ISP who are in some
partnership with MSN.)
I know it's way past your bedtime that side of the pond but I visited the
site, entered an RSS URL and got the feed displayed on the page but no
scrolling. I seem to be missing something.
Regards,
Mark.
| From | Me |
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| To | Mark Lee |
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| Subject | Re: RSS Scroller |
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| Date | 26 August 2005 08:24 |
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Mark,
> I'm stuck with Windoze
I hear your pain ;) but to be fair I use Windows too, as well as Linux and
Mac.
At least you can still use Opera or Mozilla/Firefox (unless of course some
aspect of your work is needlessly tied to IE)
> I know it's way past your bedtime that side of the pond but I visited the
> site, entered an RSS URL and got the feed displayed on the page but no
> scrolling. I seem to be missing something.
It's only in the zip package, not in the live online version:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/rss.zip
Tarquin
| From | Mark Lee |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: RSS Scroller |
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| Date | 26 August 2005 17:16 |
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Mark,
You know I only downloaded Opera last night(?). It displays my pages really
well.
I only realised last night that <marquee>Text</marquee> does what I want to
do. So I dropped php include between the tags and voila! Problem solved.
Only drawback: onmouseover=this.stop() onmouseout=this.start() doesn't work
in Opera. I've included the files. news.php displays the RSS URL set in
feed.php.