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| |\  /|                                                We Put  |
| | >< Hypercosm       web_browser_plug_ins.js          3d      |
| |/  \|                                                To Work |
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|                                                               |
|        This file contains some javascript utilities that      |
|        are used to add web browser plug-ins to a page.        |
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|                Copyright (c) 2007 Hypercosm, LLC.             |
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function createIEControl(element, params) {

  // create new object node
  //
  var object = document.createElement("object");

  // set width and height
  //
  object.style.width = element.style.width;
  object.style.height = element.style.height;

  // set attributes
  //
  for (var param in params)
    //object.setAttribute(param, params[param]);
    object[param] = params[param];
	
  // set id
  //
  object.id = element.id;

  if (document.readyState == "complete") {

    // update DOM
    //
    if (element.parentNode)
      element.parentNode.replaceChild(object, element);
  } else {

    // set callback to update DOM after loading is complete
    //
    var self = element;
    document.attachEvent("onreadystatechange", function() {
      if (document.readyState == "complete")
        if (self.parentNode)
          self.parentNode.replaceChild(object, self);
    });
  }

  return object; 
}	// createIEControl


function createMozillaControl(element, params) {
  if (isSafari)
    return createSafariControl(element, params);

  // create new embed node
  //
  var embed = document.createElement("embed");

  // set width and height
  //
  embed.style.width = element.style.width;
  embed.style.height = element.style.height;
  
  // set id
  //
  embed.id = element.id;

  // set attributes
  //
  for (var param in params)
    embed.setAttribute(param, params[param]);

  // swap node into DOM
  //
  element.parentNode.replaceChild(embed, element);

  return embed;
}	// createMozillaControl


function createSafariControl(element, params) {

  // write embed begin tag
  //
  var HTML = "<embed";
  
  // add parameters
  //
  for (var param in params)
    HTML += " " + param + "=" + '"' + params[param] + '"';
  
  // write close of embed tag
  //
  HTML += ">";

  // add dynamic HTML to document element
  //
  element.innerHTML = HTML;
  
  return document[params["name"]];
}	// createSafariControl