WebShow

WebShow is the ultimate in "news-ticker" style controls, although to refer to it simply as a ticker doesn't do it justice. WebShow is really a scrolling web browser built into a small and easy-to-use applet.

WebShow loads pages written in ordinary HTML, interprets them similarly to Internet Explorer, and scrolls them vertically. Pages can include tiled background images, inline images, links to other pages or email addresses, and (of course) ordinary text. WebShow supports all the useful HTML tags, from paragraph breaks, line breaks and divisions to horizontal rules, images, blockquotes and lists. Tags include support for their most useful attributes.

Since the pages you display are written in HTML, there are no new tags or unusual syntax to learn in order to format the display the way you want it. Links in WebShow can target any browser frame or window, run JavaScript methods, or open a new page in WebShow itself. WebShow can even read portions of embedded style sheets to provide link-hover colors and underlines.

To find out what WebShow can do, take a look at Example #3. You can type plain HTML into a text field to see it displayed, or use the links to load web pages into WebShow. (The pages explain WebShow's HTML support in more detail.)