news ticker

Using the BBC style news ticker in Drupal

3 June 2010

Version 2.x of my jQuery news ticker plug-in requires jQuery 1.4.x. (The plugin site lists it as 1.3 compatible because it still doesn’t let me mark it as 1.4!)

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Updates to BBC style news ticker jQuery plugin

28 March 2010

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.

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BBC style news ticker

17 October 2007

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Wanting to create a news ticker along the lines of that used on the BBC news site, I took a look around for a handy plugin to do it, but with no success. So… I created my own, as a jQuery plugin. A quick sample of how to use it follows, or you can see the news ticker in action.
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Bryan Gullan

Senior Project Manager at Torchbox, a web development agency based in Oxfordshire. I’ve a particular interest in accessibility and web standards.

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