// ===================================================================================================================== // File: hrblink.js - Copyright (c) 2001 Henk Reints, www.chello.nl/~h.reints // Usage: // // // // // // // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HRblinkIE4 = (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (1*navigator.appVersion.split(' ')[0] >= 4) HRblinkCount = 0 // init counter of blinking objects // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Next function creates a object with blinking text using dynamic HTML // (only if IE4+, otherwise it uses the tag). // The ID of the span = "HRblinkItem" + the value of HRblinkCount as a sequence number. // (blinkCount will automatically be incremented for the next call). // // The function should be called with 2 or more arguments: // time = the duration in milliseconds between visibility switches; // text = an item to be displayed as text // all (optional) extra arguments are treated as text as well. // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function HRblink (time, text) { if (!HRblinkIE4) {document.write ('') } else {document.write ('') } else {document.write (''); HRblinkEngine (HRblinkCount, time); HRblinkCount++} } // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Next function is the actual blink engine; // it toggles the visibility attribute and then reschedules // itself to run again after the given amount of time. // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function HRblinkEngine (i, time) { with (document.all['HRblinkItem'+i].style) { if (visibility == 'visible') {visibility = 'hidden' } else {visibility = 'visible'} } setTimeout ('HRblinkEngine(' + i + ',' + time + ')', time) } // ===================================================================================================================== // end of file hrblink.js - Copyright (c) 2001 Henk Reints, www.chello.nl/~h.reints