Updates to BBC style news ticker jQuery plugin

I’ve been writing a few updates for my BBC style news ticker plugin, in order to add some accessibility features as well as working around an issue where in some browsers, links where the link text is being modified can’t easily be clicked.

There are now stop and resume controls (added by default) and stop-on-hover functionality. When the animation is stopped, the whole of the current link text is displayed immediately, and the ticker will start on the next item on resume. There’s also, when the controls are enabled, a “next” button to manually loop through the items. Animation is stopped during manual advance.

Please see http://www.makemineatriple.com/2007/10/bbcnewsticker/ for more details about the news ticker, or to make any comments about it. You can download the latest version from http://plugins.jquery.com/project/BBCnewsTicker

Note that the new version of the ticker requires jQuery 1.4.x