[jQuery] Re: Animation speed dilemma...

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Methvin
Do you have a link to a ticker similar to the one you want to create? I didn't see one on the ESPN site. Also, what if the client can't keep up with 12 frames/sec? Should it drop frames?

[jQuery] Re: Animation speed dilemma...

2008-12-15 Thread Dan Switzer
Dae, I'm talking about the ticker that ESPN uses on TV. As far as how many FPS per second, I have decided what I'm using. I'm just needing to make the visual speed of scrolling consistent (which is done by moving an element to the left until it's no longer visible) to be the same no matter how

[jQuery] Re: Animation speed dilemma...

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Methvin
If you wanted the ticker to scroll at 12 pixels per second, you could take the width of the ticker element in pixels and divide by 12 to get the seconds for animation. You'd also need a resize handler for the ticker to recalibrate the speed. Would that work? Do you need to implement some sort of