/********************** Initialize page ************************************/ // function that loads the images and starts animation when dom is ready, // this is a better method than since it doesn't // wait for the browser to finish loading all of the other elements on the page document.observe("dom:loaded", function() { // Load banner files and start animation firstLoad(); // set twitter box height setTwitterBoxHeight(); // set twitter header setTwitterHeader(); // getTwitter RSS and start intervals getRSS(); setInterval("getRSS()",120000); }); /***************************** Banner Functions ****************************/ // arrays that hold the image and text elements var myBannerArray = new Array(); var myTextArray = new Array(); var elemArray = new Array(); // variable that will contain total number of elements in the array var count; // set initial index var currElemIndex = 0; // loads external File function loadXMLDoc(url) { if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlhttp.open("GET",url,false); xmlhttp.send(null); } else {// code for IE6, IE5 xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); xmlhttp.open("GET",url,false); xmlhttp.send(); } var myText = xmlhttp.responseText; // Strip out all of the unwanted white space in the file myText = myText.replace(/(\n\r|\n|\r)/gm,"<1br />"); myText = myText.replace(/\t/g," "); re1 = /\s+/g; myText = myText.replace(re1," "); re2 = /\<1br \/>/gi; myText = myText.replace(re2, ""); // set markers for splitting text myText = myText.replace(/

/g,'###

'); myText = myText.replace(/> <'); var lastDiv = myText.lastIndexOf("

")+6; var firstDiv = myText.indexOf("###"); myText = myText.substr(firstDiv,lastDiv); // create element arrays elemArray = myText.split("###"); } // function getContent gets the HMTL files via the loadXMLDoc function, it has four parameters: // file -> HTML file to parse // htmltag -> ID of the HTML elemement that will display the items on the page // array -> Name of the array that will contain the items // identifier -> A unique prefix that will be used to generate IDs for the display elements function getContent(file,htmltag,array,identifier) { // function loads the file and inserts it into a temporary array loadXMLDoc(file); var myLen = elemArray.length; var counter = 0; var txt=""; for (i=0;i

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