TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("tapeticker").innerHTML;

TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 1;
//TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Verdana; font-size:12px; color:#444444;";
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#444444;";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
var tickerSupported = false;
TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("tapeticker").style.width;
var img = "<img src='ticker_space.gif' width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height='0' alt='spacer'>";


// Firefox
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
document.getElementById("tapeticker").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;
//alert('firefox');
}
// IE
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1) {
document.getElementById("tapeticker").innerHTML = "<DIV nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'></SPAN>"+img+"</DIV>";
tickerSupported = true;
//alert('ie');
}
if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("TICKER").outerHTML = ""; else {
document.getElementById("tapeticker").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("tapeticker").offsetWidth : 0;
document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
document.getElementById("tapeticker").style.display="block";
TICKER_tick();
}
}

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