

// Initialize Scripts - is this a browser that understands DOM?

function scriptInit() {
if (!document.getElementById) {
	return;
	}
}

// Set up Event Listener - the script that allows us to use the addEvent call below

function addEvent(elm, evType, fn, useCapture) {
	if (elm.addEventListener) {
	elm.addEventListener(evType, fn, useCapture);
	return true;
	} else if (elm.attachEvent) {
	var r = elm.attachEvent('on' + evType, fn);
	return r;
	} else {
	elm['on' + evType] = fn;
	}
}

// Start Column Script

function setTall() {
	if (document.getElementById) {
		// the divs array contains references to each column's div element.  
		var divs = new Array(document.getElementById('leftcol'), document.getElementById('rightcol'));
		
		// Let's determine the maximum height out of all columns specified
		var maxHeight = 0;
		for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) {
			if (divs[i].offsetHeight > maxHeight) maxHeight = divs[i].offsetHeight;
		}
		
		// Let's set all columns to that maximum height
		for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) {
			divs[i].style.height = maxHeight + 'px';

			// Now, if the browser's in standards-compliant mode, the height property
			// sets the height excluding padding, so we figure the padding out by subtracting the
			// old maxHeight from the new offsetHeight, and compensate!  So it works in Safari AND in IE 5.x
			if (divs[i].offsetHeight > maxHeight) {
				divs[i].style.height = (maxHeight - (divs[i].offsetHeight - maxHeight)) + 'px';
			}
		}
	}
}

/*
	Fire Events - you can add other scripts here and call them using the following method.  
	This one balances the columns when the page loads, and again when the window is resized
*/

addEvent(window, 'load', setTall, false);
addEvent(window, 'resize', setTall, false);