MediaWiki:Common.js

/* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */ /* The following is for the Events features, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar_(Barrylb) */

/*** Place in MediaWiki:Common.js ****/ function makeRequest(url) { var httpRequest;

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ... httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest; } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE   try { httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try { httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) {} } }

if (!httpRequest) { alert("Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance");   return false;  }  httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function { alertContents(httpRequest); };  httpRequest.open("GET", url, true);  httpRequest.send(null); }

function alertContents(httpRequest) {

if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) { if (httpRequest.status == 200) { document.getElementById("p-calendar").innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText; } else { document.getElementById("p-calendar").innerHTML = " There was a problem with the request. "; } } }