// this works around the new IE click-before-use problem that results from MS
// losing the patent lawsuit with Eolas.
// Question: why is Adobe's solution for doing the same thing two pages long?

/* such a simple, elegant solution. And, while it _is_ perfectly valid, it's
   getting incorrectly picked up by the w3c validator, which doesn't correctly
   screen tags in a javascript string.
*/

function sg_ie_no_click(str)
{  document.write(str);  }

/* therefore, we use this slightly more complicated one. It's still valid,
   _passes_ the w3c validator, but isn't quite as elegant as the previous
   solution
*/

function transform_str(str)
{  var openReg = new RegExp('{');
   var closeReg = new RegExp('}');
   var s2 = str.replace(openReg, '<').replace(closeReg, '>');
   while(s2 != str)
   {  str = s2;
      s2 = str.replace(openReg, '<').replace(closeReg, '>');
   }
   return(s2);
}

function sg_ie_no_click_2(str)
{  document.write(transform_str(str));  }