Does anyone know how Apple does their "Hot News" ticker? I want to do something very similar for the website I manage, but I cant find in Apples source code how they did it.
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"Hot News" ticker
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I'm pretty sure it's just an animated .gif that they made and then uploaded and displayed; nothing too fancy.
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Yes, it's just a .gif file. Try "news ticker java script" in Google and you'll find many ways to do it. Definitely using a java script is the easiest way, but if you have Flash, you can always make an easy animation and then export it as a .gif file, and save the Flash file so later you can easily modify it.
Yeah I'd go JS too.
The Apple one is annoying, I think. It looks great, but when I see a cool story go scrolling by, I click it expecting it to take me to the story I clicked, but it just takes me to the news home page.
With JS, each story could have it's own link, which is what I think most people will expect when they see it.
The Apple one is annoying, I think. It looks great, but when I see a cool story go scrolling by, I click it expecting it to take me to the story I clicked, but it just takes me to the news home page.
With JS, each story could have it's own link, which is what I think most people will expect when they see it.