function fade(step) {
			var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");

			step = step || 0;

			imgs[1].style.opacity = step/100;
			imgs[1].style.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + step + ")"; // IE

			step = step + 2;

			if (step <= 100) {
				window.setTimeout(function () { fade(step); }, 1);
			}
		}

/*****

Image Cross Fade Redux
Version 1.0
Last revision: 02.15.2006
steve@slayeroffice.com

Please leave this notice intact. 

Rewrite of old code found here: http://slayeroffice.com/code/imageCrossFade/index.html


*****/


window.addEventListener?window.addEventListener("load",so_init,false):window.attachEvent("onload",so_init);

var d=document, imgs = new Array(), zInterval = null, current=0, pause=false;
var StartInterval=100;
var StandardInterval=6000;

function so_init() {
	if(!d.getElementById || !d.createElement)return;

	// DON'T FORGET TO GRAB THIS FILE AND PLACE IT ON YOUR SERVER IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS THE JAVASCRIPT!
	// http://slayeroffice.com/code/imageCrossFade/xfade2.css
	css = d.createElement("link");
	css.setAttribute("href","xfade2.css");
	css.setAttribute("rel","stylesheet");
	css.setAttribute("type","text/css");
	d.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(css);
	imgsInhalt = d.getElementById("imageContainerInhalt");
//	alert(imgsInhalt);
	if(imgsInhalt) {
//		alert("T");
		imgs = d.getElementById("imageContainerInhalt").getElementsByTagName("img");
		StartInterval = 1;
		StandardInterval = 99999999999;
	} else {
		imgs = d.getElementById("imageContainer").getElementsByTagName("img");
		StartInterval = 5000;
		StandardInterval = 6000;
	}	
	
	
	//imgs = d.getElementById("imageContainer").getElementsByTagName("img");

	for(i=1;i<imgs.length;i++) imgs[i].xOpacity = 0;
	imgs[0].style.display = "block";
	imgs[0].xOpacity = 1;//.99;

	setTimeout(so_xfade,StartInterval);
	

}

function so_xfade() {
	cOpacity = imgs[current].xOpacity;
	nIndex = imgs[current+1]?current+1:0;

	nOpacity = imgs[nIndex].xOpacity;
	
//	cOpacity-=.05; 
//	nOpacity+=.05;
	cOpacity-=0.05; 
	nOpacity+=0.05;
	
	imgs[nIndex].style.display = "block";
	imgs[current].xOpacity = cOpacity;
	imgs[nIndex].xOpacity = nOpacity;
	
	setOpacity(imgs[current]); 
	setOpacity(imgs[nIndex]);
	
	if(cOpacity<=0) {
		imgs[current].style.display = "none";
		current = nIndex;
		setTimeout(so_xfade,StandardInterval);
	} else {
		setTimeout(so_xfade,80);
	}
	
	function setOpacity(obj) {
		if(obj.xOpacity>.99) {
			obj.xOpacity = .99;
			return;
		}
		obj.style.opacity = obj.xOpacity;
		obj.style.MozOpacity = obj.xOpacity;
		obj.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + (obj.xOpacity*100) + ")";
	}
	
}

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}