An automatically scrolling live ticker (like the "Top Tweets" of Twitter)

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Zardoz picture Zardoz · Sep 28, 2010 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

Is there a good Javascript library for generating an automatically scrolling list like the "Top Tweets" on the Twitter homepage? Preferable as jQuery plugin. It should also support AJAX functionality (to add new list items dynamically).

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Zardoz picture Zardoz · Dec 4, 2010

As we were not really satisfied with the existing solutions we implemented one from scratch. Our solution is a fully jQuery UI compatible ticker plugin (also compatible with their theming framework) and fully unit tested. We didn't yet have the time to test it under every browser, so feedback is welcome (for problems please open issues on the below Github project site).

A special styled demo (Twitter like) is available here. The main main repository can be found here (ticker branch). There are several options to customize the ticker (documentation at the above mentioned Github repository).

Screenshot:

Ticker Screenshot

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