Live News Feed Question???

On our site I need to implement a newsfeed. What do you recommend as the technology to implement this?

1. ActiveX Control?
2. Flash
3. ASP Page( refreshing every few seconds?)
4. Something else???

Thanks

Depends..... who/what will be supplying this news feed? An outside organization? Or is this something you are supplying?
If this is on a webpage, stay away from ActiveX or Flash. Flash isn't easly updateable and not everyone can run ActiveX (eith by security settings or by browser type).
IMHO ASP w/ a database would be your best bet.

We are supplying the newsfeed from our own sql2000 db.

Just so you know FLASH MX is very easy to integrate with a db.

I just found out I can use IFrames instead which will probably be a decent solution.

thanks

But not every has the Flash plug in.
I didn't know Flash could dynamically talk to a DB.... it's grown since I worked w/ it last then.

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Originally posted by techgnome
But not every has the Flash plug in.
I didn't know Flash could dynamically talk to a DB.... it's grown since I worked w/ it last then.

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yep