<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
// Trivial and pointless little JavaScript to interpolate random
// strings into a page.
var sc = 10; // Number of alternative strings
var s = new Array(sc); // Array to hold alternative strings
// String definitions. There should be exactly 'sc' strings, numbered
// from 0 to (sc - 1). You can embed markup in the strings, provided
// you're careful to escape any double quotes. Note that if you fail
// to define enough strings, you'll get 'undefined' appearing in place
// of the string, or possibly even a security violation, which tends
// to be unaesthetic.
s[0] = "She won't live, of course. But then again ... who does?";
s[1] = "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.";
s[2] = "Frog blast the vent core!";
s[3] = "Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. " +
"When it's bad, it's still pretty good.";
s[4] = "unix soit qui mal y pense";
s[5] = "Wriggling grunion in your slipstream";
s[6] = "I'm shocked to hear it. The Hyperdyne 400 series always " +
"were a bit twitchy.";
s[7] = "I have the greatest enthusiasm for our mission, Dave.";
s[8] = "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.";
s[9] = "Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.";
// pickRandom - Return a random number in a given range. If we're running
// on an older browser that doesn't support 'Math.random()', we can fake
// it by using the current time. This isn't ideal for mission-critical
// security applications, but it's fine here. Note that we divide the
// current time by 1000 to get rid of the milliseconds which Navigator
// doesn't seem to take into account.
function pickRandom(range) {
if (Math.random)
return Math.round(Math.random() * (range-1));
else {
var now = new Date();
return (now.getTime() / 1000) % range;
}
}
// Write the string into the document. The "<BLOCKQUOTE>" tags are just
// for formatting; you can put as much or as little HTML around these
// strings as you like.
var choice = pickRandom(sc);
document.writeln("<TABLE WIDTH=460 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>" +
"<BLOCKQUOTE><BIG><B>" + s[choice] +
"<" + "/B><" + "/BIG><" + "/BLOCKQUOTE>" +
"<" + "/TD><" + "/TR><" + "/TABLE>");
// --></SCRIPT>