Dancing status bar with nice slide

<!--Dancing status bar sliding nicely -->
<!--   DESCRIPTIONS:  This will make your text bounce in the status bar of the browser.

    INSTRUCTIONS:  Place this script in the HEAD tags of your webpage.  Then place the text you want to be bounced in the area that says,
                      "FILL YOUR MESSAGE HERE".

    FUNCTIONALITY: Works only in both Netscape & IE.
-->

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
//Modified by CoffeeCup Software
//This code is Copyright (c) 1997 CoffeeCup Software
//all rights reserved. License is granted to a single user to
//reuse this code on a personal or business Web Site.



var yourtext = "* FILL YOUR MESSAGE HERE! *";
var wedge1="                        ";
var wedge2="                        ";
var message1=wedge1+yourtext+wedge2;
var dir = "lside";
var speed = 50;

function bouncey() {

    if (dir == "lside") {
        message2=message1.substring(2,message1.length)+"  ";
        window.status=message2;
        setTimeout("bouncey();",speed);
        message1=message2;

        if (message1.substring(0,1) == "*") {
            dir="rside";
        }
    }

    else {
        message2="  "+message1.substring(0,message1.length-2);
        window.status=message2;
        setTimeout("bouncey();",speed);
        message1=message2;
        if (message1.substring(message1.length-1,message1.length) == "*") {
            dir="lside";
        }
    }
}

// -- End Hiding Here.... -->
</SCRIPT>

<body onLoad="bouncey()">

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