Ever since I discovered jQuery (that’s a couple of years ago) my life has been a joy ride when it comes to developing web apps. So I figured it’s only fair that I start writing about it. I would like to start with one of my favorite plug-ins written by Mike Alsup called Cycle. Among it’s numerous functionalities, I’d like to simply point out it’s ability to tick your tweets in the most basic form.
All you need to do is follow instructions from Twitter to retrieve your tweets using the RSS feed and put them in nested div containers in your page. Then call the following function to start ticking them.
$(function() {
$("div#twitter_feed").cycle('scrollUp');
})
Obvisouly, there’s so much more you can do with it. To get an idea of how this really looks like, take a look at Alsup’s page itself. You can also download the plugin along with some examples to get started.
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