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  1. Nov 11th, 2002, 11:26 AM #1
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    Question 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
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  2. Nov 11th, 2002, 12:01 PM #2
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    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.
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    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.

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    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.
    yep
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