TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").innerHTML;
 
ticker_init();

function ticker_init() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").style.width;
	var img = "<img src=ticker_space.gif width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height=0>";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").innerHTML = "<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td nowrap=\"nowrap\">"+img+"<span style=\""+TICKER_STYLE+"\" id=\"TICKER_BODY\" width=\"100%\">&nbsp;</span>"+img+"</td></tr></table>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	// IE
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1) {
		document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").innerHTML = "<div nowrap=\"nowrap\" style=\"width:100%;\">"+img+"<span style=\""+TICKER_STYLE+"\" id=\"TICKER_BODY\" width=\"100%\"></span>"+img+"</div>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").outerHTML = ""; else {
		document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").offsetWidth : 0;
		document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
		document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").style.display="block";
		ticker_update();
	}
}

function ticker_update() {
	if(!TICKER_PAUSED) document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollLeft += TICKER_SPEED * (TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? -1 : 1);
	if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollLeft <= 0) document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").offsetWidth;
	if(!TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("NEWSTICKER").scrollLeft = 0;
	window.setTimeout("ticker_update()", 30);
}