[thelist] scrolling news tickers

[John Handelaar]

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> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Andy Wojtowski
> Sent: 18 January 2001 19:43
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] scrolling news tickers
> 
> 
> Personally I agree with you on scrolling tickers that are normally black
> with green text or something similar, but Apple.com has a rather nice
> ticker that instead of scrolling flashes the news stories and when a
> user clicks they are taken to a page that has all the "new" news
> stories. Just in case you miss clicking on the one you wanted : )
> So I guess my point is that if you have content or information that is
> updated daily that you don't want to put on the front page a nicely done
> news ticker could be a viable answer.

[checks that it's still there - I'm not in the field anymore]

The one at the front door of the UK's Radio Authority
is nice.  Fine, it's carrying press release headlines,
but if you work in radio, usually when you visit
the RA website you're looking for very current 
information and it's on the ticker.  So for its
audience it's a good solution.

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