var awardbox = new Array();
var current = 0;

//change the opacity for different browsers
function changeOpac(opacity, id) {
	var object = document.getElementById(id).style; 
	object.opacity = (opacity / 100);
	object.MozOpacity = (opacity / 100);
	object.KhtmlOpacity = (opacity / 100);
	object.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + opacity + ")";
}

function get_awards() {
	awards = document.getElementById("award-section").getElementsByTagName("li");
	for (var i = 0; i<awards.length; i++) {
		if(awards[i].className == "awardbox") {
			awardbox.push(awards[i]);
		}
	}
	awardbox[0].style.display = "block";
	changeOpac("100",awardbox[0].id);
}

function fade() {

	var timer = 250; /* delay btwn fade */
	var speed = 10; /* speed of fade */
	
	if (awardbox.length <= 0) {
		get_awards();
	}
	
	for(i = 100; i >= 0; i--) {
		setTimeout("changeOpac(" + i + ",'" + awardbox[current].id + "')",(timer * speed));
		timer++;
		if (i<=0) {
			setTimeout("awardbox["+current+"].style.display = 'none'",(timer * speed));
			current++;
			if (current >= awardbox.length) current = 0;	
			setTimeout("awardbox["+current+"].style.display = 'block'",(timer * speed));
			for(j = 0; j <= 100; j++) {
				setTimeout("changeOpac(" + j + ",'" + awardbox[current].id + "')",(timer * speed));
				timer++;
				if (j>=100) {
					setTimeout("fade()",(timer * speed));	
				}
			}
		}
	}
}