document.getElementById("ticker").style.visibility = 'visible';
tickerContent = document.getElementById("ticker").innerHTML;
tickerRightLeft = false;
tickerSpeed = 2;
tickerStyle = "visibility:visible; font:normal medium 'Times New Roman', serif;";
tickerPaused = false;

tickerStart();

function tickerStart() {
  var tickerSupported = false;
  tickerWidth = document.getElementById("ticker").style.width;
  var img = "<img src=grfx/spacer.gif width="+tickerWidth+" height=0>";

  // 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'>"+img+"<span style='"+tickerStyle+"' ID='tickerBody' width='100%'>&nbsp;</span>"+img+"</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%;'>"+img+"<span style='"+tickerStyle+"' id='tickerBody' width='100%'></span>"+img+"</div>";
    tickerSupported = true;
  }
  if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("ticker").outerHTML = ""; else {
    document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = tickerRightLeft ? document.getElementById("ticker").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("ticker").offsetWidth : 500;
    document.getElementById("tickerBody").innerHTML = tickerContent;
    document.getElementById("ticker").style.display="block";
    tickertick();
  }
}

function tickertick() {
  if(!tickerPaused) document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft += tickerSpeed * (tickerRightLeft ? -1 : 1);
  if(tickerRightLeft && document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft <= 0) document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("ticker").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("ticker").offsetWidth;
  if(!tickerRightLeft && document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("ticker").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("ticker").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = 0;
  window.setTimeout("tickertick()", 30);
}