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

ticker_start();

function ticker_start()
{
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_MSG_LENGTH = (TICKER_CONTENT.length - 22)
	TICKER_WIDTH = 710;															//the width of the parent container
	OPENING_IMG_WIDTH = 1325;													//gives a delay before the ticker displays, allowing the homepage animation to complete

	var img = "<img src='http://static.baltimorehousing.org/img/site/space.gif' width='"+TICKER_WIDTH+"' height='0' />";
	var opening_img = "<img src='http://static.baltimorehousing.org/img/site/space.gif' width='"+OPENING_IMG_WIDTH+"' height='0' />";

	// Firefox/Safari
	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'>"+opening_img+"<span id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</span>"+img+"</td></tr></table>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}

	// IE

//	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1)			this is the line from the active sample
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1)			//this is the line in the downloaded code
	{
		document.getElementById("ticker").innerHTML = "<div nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+opening_img+"<span id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'></span>"+img+"</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);
}