Based on the blog posts by Antonio Lupetti, this news scroller is open source and ready to use.

Demo

Version 1.3 includes

• Added a Mootools 1.1.2 compatible version for those who need.
• Added YUI Compressed versions.

• Fixed bug of scrolling immediately upon startup
• Added pausing of scroll when mouse is in the ticker area.
• Added option of no_mouse_pause. Default is false (mouse causes pause).
• Commented newsticker file.
• Made newsticker file into a proper library file--moved the invocation to the sample index file.
• Changed example to load JS at end as recommended by http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
• Tested with Google api service--using them to serve mootools.
• Tested with Win IE 7, Chrome, FF, Safari
• Upgraded to mootools ver 1.2.4.

Demo

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