function clearOnLoad(x)
{
   item = Event.element(x)
   if(!item.cleared)
   {
      item.value = '';
   }
   item.cleared = true;
}


function hide_element(ele) { if($(ele)) $(ele).hide(); }

addEvent(window, 'DOMContentLoaded', function(){

   new Dropdown('nav_sport', 'sports_subnav');

   if(a = $('login_box')) a.hide();
   if(a = $('login_link'))
   {
      a.observe('click', function(e){
	 Event.stop(e);
	 if(box = $('login_box')) Effect.toggle($('login_box'), 'slide');
      });
   }
   hide_element('message_contents');
   hide_element('add_blog_entry');
   hide_element('add_comment');
   hide_element('share_this_form');
   hide_element('custom_url_form');

   items = $$('input.clear_on_load');
   items.each(function(x) {
      x.cleared = false;
      Event.observe(x, 'focus', clearOnLoad);
   });

   // if(typeof sIFR == "function") { sIFR.replaceElement("h2", named({sFlashSrc: "/inc/sifr.swf", sColor: "#000", sCase: "upper", sSize: "40px", sWmode: "transparent"})); };
});




PopupHelper = { 
   defaultWidth: 640, 
   defaultHeight: 420, 
   open_window:function(url, width, height)
   { 
      window.open(url, 'external', 'width=' + width + ', height=' + height + ', scrollbars=yes'); 
   } 
}

function social_bookmark(social_link)
{
   PopupHelper.open_window(social_link + encodeURIComponent(location.href), 800, 600);
}

function get_quote() { return "Maybe it's a statement about the relative merits of postmodernism as it applies to athletic metrics?"; }

function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}

function urchinTracker(dontcare) { return 0; } // for now at least