function onContent(f){//(C)webreflection.blogspot.com
// this function is used to determine when the browser has the DOM loaded, and ready for use
var a,b=navigator.userAgent,d=document,w=window,
c="__onContent__",e="addEventListener",o="opera",r="readyState",
s="<scr".concat("ipt defer src='//:' on",r,"change='if(this.",r,"==\"complete\"){this.parentNode.removeChild(this);",c,"()}'></scr","ipt>");
w[c]=(function(o){return function(){w[c]=function(){};for(a=arguments.callee;!a.done;a.done=1)f(o?o():o)}})(w[c]);
if(d[e])d[e]("DOMContentLoaded",w[c],false);
if(/WebKit|Khtml/i.test(b)||(w[o]&&parseInt(w[o].version())<9))
(function(){/loaded|complete/.test(d[r])?w[c]():setTimeout(arguments.callee,1)})();
else if(/MSIE/i.test(b))d.write(s);
};

function trim (str) {
	// javascript lacks a good string trim function, this will trim "white spaces" from the beginning and end of a string
	var str = str.replace(/^\s+/, '');
	for (var i = str.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
		if (/\S/.test(str.charAt(i))) {
			str = str.substring(0, i + 1);
			break;
		}
	}
	return str;
}


function createCookie(name,value,days) {
	if (days) {
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
		var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
	}
	else var expires = "";
	document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

function readCookie(name) {
	var nameEQ = name + "=";
	var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
	for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
		var c = ca[i];
		while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
		if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
	}
	return null;
}

function eraseCookie(name) {
	createCookie(name,"",-1);
}

function sendRequest(url,callback,postData) {
	var req = createXMLHTTPObject();
	if (!req) return;
	var method = (postData) ? "POST" : "GET";
	req.open(method,url,true);
	req.setRequestHeader('User-Agent','XMLHTTP/1.0');
	if (postData)
		req.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
	req.onreadystatechange = function () {
		if (req.readyState != 4) return;
		if (req.status != 200 && req.status != 304) {
//			alert('HTTP error ' + req.status);
			return;
		}
		callback(req);
	}
	if (req.readyState == 4) return;
	req.send(postData);
}

var XMLHttpFactories = [
	function () {return new XMLHttpRequest()},
	function () {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")},
	function () {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml3.XMLHTTP")},
	function () {return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}
];

function createXMLHTTPObject() {
	var xmlhttp = false;
	for (var i=0;i<XMLHttpFactories.length;i++) {
		try {
			xmlhttp = XMLHttpFactories[i]();
		}
		catch (e) {
			continue;
		}
		break;
	}
	return xmlhttp;
}

function addEvent(obj, evType, fn){ 
 if (obj.addEventListener){ 
   obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, false); 
   return true; 
 } else if (obj.attachEvent){ 
   var r = obj.attachEvent("on"+evType, fn); 
   return r; 
 } else { 
   return false; 
 } 
}

function resetStage(){
    // function used to reset the contents of the document.body
    document.body.innerHTML = "";
}
