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//    External Javascript file common to all pages.
//    The main purpose is to make cross-platform
//    (IE & Netscape) DHTML pages.
//
//    Author:      Diming Chen
//    Creation:    May. 30, 2002
//
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// determine the browser type
var ns = false;
var ie = false;
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Explorer") > 0) ie = true;
else ns = true;

// using popular search engines
function websearch() {
    var qURL = "";
    var siteList = new Array ("http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=",
                              "http://www.askjeeves.com/main/askJeeves.asp?ask=", 
                              "http://www.search.com/search?q=",
                              "http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=",
                              "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=",
                              "http://www.looksmart.com/r_search?key=",
                              "http://search.lycos.com/main/default.asp?query=",
                              "http://search.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=",
                              "http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=",
                              "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=");
    var qval = document.sitesearch.qstring.value;
    var selindx = document.sitesearch.site.selectedIndex;

    if(qval.length==0 || qval.indexOf(" ")==0) {
        alert("Please enter the search string, without leading space(s).");
        document.sitesearch.qstring.value = "";
        return;
    }
    qURL = siteList[selindx]+qval;

    newwindow = window.open(qURL,"_blank");
    newwindow.focus();
}