Andrew_Samuel — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:19:59 +0000

Came back to say the problem has now been resolved and it seems I may have been a little hasty in my choice of script?

So what's an alternative for a rolling, news text section of a site please?
Nothing too complicated mind.

wwwben — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:59:49 +0000

well I am not saying that I particularly like MARQUEE but I was just trying to say lets try to help him resolve the problem and leave our opinions for the critique area.

bja888 — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:47:56 +0000

Are people still useing the consept of "DHTML" to impress web noods? Its just javascript and html.

JeevesBond — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:10:04 +0000

An addition - I just looked up the 508 guidelines:

Quote:
Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

Flickering pages or images are distracting and can trigger certain types of epileptic seizures. Avoid using javascript or DHTML effects that make the page flicker. When possible, avoid animation.

Avoid using the BLINK and MARQUEE tags if possible. Marquee text is often read by a screen reader one letter at a time as it appears on the screen.

I'll get down from my "high-horse" now

JeevesBond — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:03:29 +0000

I'll back Andy up on the marquee thing... They look terrible and browsers apparently render and re-render them at just the right frequency to give susceptible persons an epileptic fit.

wwwben — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:18:33 +0000

well since he didn't ask us if we thought a particular part of the site should be used, we should instead try to answer his question. So how about those scripts?

andy206uk — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:11:18 +0000

marquee?? no no no no NO! Don't do marquees, marquees are bad mmmkay?

wwwben — Tue, 31 May 2005 04:50:46 +0000

can we see the two dhtml script codes?