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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.


On 1 Apr 2008, at 21:28, theUKdude wrote:

> 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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