[jQuery] New Plug-in: Marquee, an ESPN-style ticker...
My current employer (Giva, Inc) has released another jQuery plug-in
today called the Marquee jQuery Plug-in. The jQuery Marquee plug-in
converts a list element (<ul /> or <ol />) into an ESPN-style scrolling
marquee. Messages are scrolled in from top or bottom (based on the
yScroll option) and longer messages will then ticker to the left in
order to show the full message.
While there are a number of ticker/marquee style plug-ins, nothing did
exactly what I needed. I really wanted something that would scroll
up/down new messages, but would then ticker messages that didn't fit on
the screen.
In our SaaS application, our customers wanted a place at the top of the
screen where they could put important notices to their clients, and they
seem to be very happy with the effects we use in this plug-in.
The Marquee jQuery Plug-in has an example you can look at or you can see
several different marquees in different configurations at:
http://www.givainc.com/labs/marquee_example.htm
Marquee Plug-in:
http://www.givainc.com/labs/marquee_jquery_plugin.htm
Marquee jQuery Project Page:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/giva-marquee
The plug-in is only 3K minimized.
-Dan