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The one thing you have to be consider with the midi background is that  
people with Soundblaster AWE32 'wavetable' sound cards will get a  
slightly better experience than those who don't.  Trumpets in  
particular are enhanced on a wavetable sound card, so try not to use  
them too much, so your users can get as similar experience to each  
other as possible.

Quoting theUKdude <theUKdude at theUKdude.com>:

> Matt Kane wrote on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:12 AM
>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > been lurking on the list for a little while, but have a question now.
>> >
>> > I'm building a site - table based naturally (none of that CSS
>> > malarky!) -
>> > what's the preferred way to achieve a scrolling text marquee where
>> > the text
>> > goes backwards?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Probably best to use a Java applet like the BBC News site used to.
>> Flash is another option, but I hear that not many browsers have it
>> installed yet. You could also create an animated gif with the text.
>
> Are you mad? Animated gifs should only be used for spinning logos, rainbow
> effects and dancing animals. I agree about the Java applet though. Maybe you
> should place it in a frameset. Also, a short looping midi background sound
> would help soothe the user when reading the scrolling marquee maybe?
>
> theUKdude
>
>
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