[thelist] scrolling news tickers
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Fri Jan 19 11:38:31 CST 2001
----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Erickson" <ilsa at earthlink.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] scrolling news tickers
> > Again, not to start a war, but I'd rather have researched authority
> > rather than half-baked opinion.
>
> Okay, I can see that ya'll dig the Jakob. I just don't think that a good
> answer to a question on a list like this is "Nuh-uh, see this:
> http://alertbox.blah.blah." Again, I do value the opinion of real
> developers.
my opinion as a "real developer" is the same as that of jakob - I saw no
reason to waste bandwidth when I could just link off to a similar philosophy
and rationale. Surely by linking off to jakob, I am demonstrating that I
agree with whatever it is I'm linking to?
although to answer richard, I don't really know what a better solution is -
I just wish folk hadn't become so reliant on drop-down lists when that's not
what the widget was designed for ...
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