"Hot News" ticker [Archive] - MacRumors Forums

AtHomeBoy_2000

Oct 12, 2005, 10:40 AM

Does anyone know how Apple does their "Hot News" ticker? I want to do something very similar for the website I manage, but I cant find in Apples source code how they did it.

rendezvouscp

Oct 12, 2005, 11:38 PM

I'm pretty sure it's just an animated .gif that they made and then uploaded and displayed; nothing too fancy.
-Chase

mcmillan

Oct 13, 2005, 04:18 PM

Yes, it's just a .gif file. Try "news ticker java script" in Google and you'll find many ways to do it. Definitely using a java script is the easiest way, but if you have Flash, you can always make an easy animation and then export it as a .gif file, and save the Flash file so later you can easily modify it.

Josh

Oct 13, 2005, 04:27 PM

Yeah I'd go JS too.

The Apple one is annoying, I think. It looks great, but when I see a cool story go scrolling by, I click it expecting it to take me to the story I clicked, but it just takes me to the news home page.

With JS, each story could have it's own link, which is what I think most people will expect when they see it.