//** Flashing Links script v2.0- (c) Dynamic Drive DHTML code library: http://www.dynamicdrive.com
//** Last updated April 6th, 09' to v2.0
//** This notice must stay intact for legal use

var flashinglinks = {

    pause: 1000, //pause between flashes (in milliseconds)
    targetlinks: [],

    changecolor: function () {
        for (var i = 0; i < this.targetlinks.length; i++) {
            var targetlink = this.targetlinks[i]
            var cssprop = (targetlink.colorsetting.type == "flashfg") ? "color" : "backgroundColor"
            targetlink.style[cssprop] = (targetlink.style[cssprop] != targetlink.colorsetting.ncolor) ? targetlink.colorsetting.ncolor : targetlink.colorsetting.ocolor
            targetlink.colorsetting.ccolor = targetlink.style[cssprop]
        }
    },

    fetchcssvalue: function (el, prop) { //prop is assumed to be non hyphenated css properties
        return (el.style[prop]) ? el.style[prop] : (el.currentStyle) ? el.currentStyle[prop] : (document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) ? document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, "").getPropertyValue(prop) : ""
    },


    addEvent: function (targetarr, functionref, tasktype) {
        if (targetarr.length > 0) {
            var target = targetarr.shift()
            if (target.addEventListener)
                target.addEventListener(tasktype, functionref, false)
            else if (target.attachEvent)
                target.attachEvent('on' + tasktype, function () { return functionref.call(target, window.event) })
            this.addEvent(targetarr, functionref, tasktype)
        }
    },

    init: function () {
        var alllinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a")
        for (var i = 0; i < alllinks.length; i++) {
            if (alllinks[i].getAttribute('rel') && /(flash[bf]g)\[(.+)\]/i.test(alllinks[i].getAttribute('rel'))) { //test for required rel attribute
                alllinks[i].colorsetting = {
                    ocolor: this.fetchcssvalue(alllinks[i], RegExp.$1 == "flashfg" ? "color" : "backgroundColor"), //get original element's fore/background color
                    ncolor: RegExp.$2, //get flash to element's fore/background color
                    type: RegExp.$1 //type: "flashfg" or "flashbg"
                }
                this.targetlinks.push(alllinks[i])
            }
        }
        if (this.targetlinks.length > 0) {
            setInterval(function () { flashinglinks.changecolor() }, this.pause)
        }
    }

}

flashinglinks.addEvent([window], function () { flashinglinks.init() }, "load")