TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 2;
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
    var tickerSupported = false;
    TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;

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

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