title: Best way to create an auto-rotating "news" feed on a website?
body: <p>my client is asking for an auto-rotating news feed type thing on their site. The content will not change, but it will automatically move from item to the next. It will also allow the user to mouse over previous items and hold them in place.</p>
  
  <p>This is best shown by the type of thing you find on Yahoo's homepage:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f5y87.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The four news items will auto-rotate, but when a user puts their mouse over one (as shown), it will stop rotating and just show that one, until they move it away (then it will continue auto-rotating).</p>
  
  <p>I imagine I can do this with a lot of <code>$('item1').fade</code> and <code>$('item2').appear</code> type malarky using Prototype and Scriptaculous, but I was wondering if there was a better way, or an existing bit of code I could use (it seems like quite a common thing, these days).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any tips or assistance!</p>