On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:33:08 +0800, "Jerry D. Turner"
<f-off@s...> wrote:

>
>> So in general, stick to exploiting the browser's rendering capabilties
>> along with CSS and you'll probably make your life much simpler.

>
>Well, we were exploring the possibility of keeping multiple marquees in 
>synch so that the messages would all start scrolling at the same time and 
>maintain that.  We've since found that some of the text in the marquees will 
>likely be rather long which would preclude us from keeping them all in 
>synch.  I was just continuing the research out of curiosity's sake in case 
>something did come up in the future.

I think possibly you might want to avoid the 'marquee' tag in any
case, as it's depracated and shouldn't be used in XHTML markup - which
you'll end up using at some point in the future. 

One of the best scrollers I've seen, and one which should be easy to
configure and keep in sync is Grey Wyvern's "OrcaScroller" : 

http://www.greywyvern.com/javascript

HTH
Cheers - Neil