var pleasewait_topics = null;

function get_topics(url, target) {
 	if ( ! document.getElementById) {
  		return false;
 	}

 	if (pleasewait_topics != null) {
  		document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = pleasewait_topics;
 	}

 	if (window.ActiveXObject) {
  		link = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
 	} else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
  		link = new XMLHttpRequest();
 	}

 	if (link == undefined) {
  		return false;
 	}
 	link.onreadystatechange = function() { response(url, target); }
	//var contents = document.getElementById(date).value;

	var queryString = url;
 	link.open("GET", queryString, true);
 	link.send(null);
}

function response(url, target) {
 	if (link.readyState == 4) {
	 	document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = (link.status == 200) ? link.responseText : "Ooops!! A broken link! Please contact the webmaster of this website ASAP and give him the fallowing errorcode: " + link.status;
	}
}

function loading_topics(msg) {
 	 pleasewait_topics = msg;
}