Alternative to marquee

[DsgnrsTLZAdmin]

I need an alternative to <marquee></marquee> because it won't validate in the html validator. What would you suggest?

[STDestiny]

Try http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/cmarquee.htm

[ronaldb66]

How 'bout not using any moving, bouncing, hopping, scrolling or floating text?!! If you wanna make things move, go find a job at Pixar; if you wanna build usable and useful web sites, I like my text static, thank you.

[swmr]

A unidirectional news marquee could be useful, methinks.

[ronaldb66]

Although I doubt that, I'd really like to see a useful, useable, non-distracting example of a news marquee that still provides the same functionality when JavaScript is turned off, or isn't available.

[swmr]

That's exactly what the marquee element is capable of... :p

[DsgnrsTLZAdmin]

This is a horizontal news scroller. Perfectly useful and is not annoying at all.




How 'bout not using any moving, bouncing, hopping, scrolling or floating text?!! If you wanna make things move, go find a job at Pixar; if you wanna build usable and useful web sites, I like my text static, thank you.




Why thank you for taking the time to write useless garbage :rolleyes:

C'mon, news scrollers are useful. They dont take up the whole page on updates and crap. Smooth, slow scrolling, horizontal text is good. Anything else is annoying in my opinion. But we all have opinions on what we like; some of us like milk, some don't.

Anyway, all I wanted was an alternative to the html marquee tags as it is not widely supported so the validator does not validate it. Thanks.

[missing-score]

Originally posted by DsgnrsTLZAdmin
Why thank you for taking the time to write useless garbage :rolleyes:

That wasnt garbage, I happen to agree with ronalds point. There is a couple of places I have seen some nice scrollers before, cant remember any that particularly stand out.

You are not going to get an alternative to marquee that will validate and work on browsers that dont use javascript.

[DsgnrsTLZAdmin]

Browsers that don't use javascript.......:rolleyes:

[missing-score]

yes... whats wrong with that? You have to consider people that have javascript disabled.

[Roy Sinclair]

Originally posted by missing-score
yes... whats wrong with that? You have to consider people that have javascript disabled.

Especially if they surf with IE which has a number of known security holes that are accessible via scripting.

Ever had your home page changed or some additional Favorites appeared while you were surfing? Chalk that up to someone using one of those bugs against you, and those are only some of the more benign things that can happen.

And as I said the other thread related to this (and yet another unrelated thread today): Animated text is hard to read, especially for those who are slow readers. Remember that some forms of Dyslexia can really slow a person down but that doesn't mean they are stupid, only that it takes them longer to read things because they have to work harder at it. If you slow the text down enough to allow the slowest readers to follow it you'll simultaneously make it hard for the fast readers because they (we actually) don't like to wait. Be kind and place the whole text in a block or a manually scrollable box where we can all read at our own preferred rate.

[me']

A nice degrading option would be make the box 1em high with onload(), then include a little bit of text 'Expand news' which of course would use javascript to make the box bigger, but those people with javascript disabled would not have the box made smaller in the first place, and it would stay expanded in legible format.

[808]

I have studied and understand the heck out of web site usability. To me, yes, a bunch of obnoxious colors and blinking/moving text can really be the worst possible thing to do with a web page. That said, there is a place for the traditional marquee. There is a reason society uses marquees, they can be a very successful marketing tool. Think of big New York City. One of the biggest attractions in a giant scrolling marquee. Very useful. As long as its readable and to the point, I know it can be a useful tool. Use it right, and most people wont complain. Don't always take advice from web/graphic designers, most of them have a huge chip on their shoulders about things.

My 2 cents

[oesxyl]

I have studied and understand the heck out of web site usability. To me, yes, a bunch of obnoxious colors and blinking/moving text can really be the worst possible thing to do with a web page. That said, there is a place for the traditional marquee. There is a reason society uses marquees, they can be a very successful marketing tool. Think of big New York City. One of the biggest attractions in a giant scrolling marquee. Very useful. As long as its readable and to the point, I know it can be a useful tool. Use it right, and most people wont complain. Don't always take advice from web/graphic designers, most of them have a huge chip on their shoulders about things.

My 2 cents
i don't know if this is the reason i never seen New York City, :)
Be serious, the fact that people tolerate annoying behaviour of developer doesn't mean they like it and marquee is a successful marketing tool.
More then that, i don't think somebody can prove this statement, "successful marketing tool", as far as i know you can see this usualy on sites who sale so named 'marketing success story', :)
In my opinion is time to understand that users are not some idiots who react to flashing things to know what they need. :)

best regards

[teedoff]

lol another 7 year old post. Why cant these be closed?? lol I keep reading them!