Sridhar Katakam

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How to set up scrambling site description ticker text in Minimum Pro

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In the members-only forum a user asks:

I'm trying to implement the TickerScrambler.js https://github.com/antkiewicz/tickerscrambler/blob/master/tickerscrambler.js in the site-tagline in minimum pro. Would you be able to provided a tutorial? Here's the tickler in action: http://engineering.nyu.edu
(It's in the footer: Engineering is...)

In this tutorial we shall load TickerScrambler before the closing body tag, initialize it by specifying the changing ticker text which scrambles a specific span element's text. This span element is inside a hard-coded string which replaces the dynamic site description in Minimum Pro.

Step 1

Upload tickerscrambler.min.js to Minimum Pro's js directory.

Step 2

Create a file named say, tickerscrambler.init.js in the same location having the following sample code:

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  • Can you advise how to implement some of the other options into the tickerscrambler.init.js file.

    Such as charset and speed.

    Thanks for the tutorial – awesome as usual!

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