re: scrolling text

Hi Nate,

Anything requiring other than simple styles in NS4.n is, as you have
discovered, nigh-on impossible. I looked at your trial pages in IE4, and the
two sets of links are rather confusing - which works depends on what button
you have selected.

If you used frames, you'd need to go for pixel-precision to get backgrounds
to line up - again, this will be pretty tricky for cross-browser use.
Iframes would be good, but only in IE and Opera 5 (?NS6?) now, so no use
either.

The only really cross-browser solution I have found is to use a Java applet
(examples at

http://www.sygem.com/JazzNews/

http://www.modernminds.com/

http://www.javaroom.com/applets/headscroll1.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Code/9129/applet/scrollapplet/

for example)

- but I am not sure how you would integrate these with buttons as most of
them work in a single page.  And again you are relying on Java support for
it to work.

Kind regards,

Lois Wakeman

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