/**
 * Provides requestAnimationFrame in a cross browser way.
 */
window.requestAnimFrame = (function() {
  return window.requestAnimationFrame ||
         window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
         window.mozRequestAnimationFrame ||
         window.oRequestAnimationFrame ||
         window.msRequestAnimationFrame ||
         function(/* function FrameRequestCallback */ callback, /* DOMElement Element */ element) {
           window.setTimeout(callback, 1000/60);
         };
})();

function HEXtoRGB(hex) {
	return [(hex >> 16 & 0xFF) / 255, ( hex >> 8 & 0xFF) / 255, (hex & 0xFF)/ 255];
}

var AjaxRequest = function()
{
	var activexmodes = ["Msxml2.XMLHTTP", "Microsoft.XMLHTTP"] //activeX versions to check for in IE
	
	if (window.ActiveXObject)
	{ //Test for support for ActiveXObject in IE first (as XMLHttpRequest in IE7 is broken)
		for (var i=0; i<activexmodes.length; i++)
		{
			try{
				return new ActiveXObject(activexmodes[i])
			}
   			catch(e){
    			//suppress error
   			}
		}
	}
	else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) // if Mozilla, Safari etc
  	{
  		return new XMLHttpRequest()
 	}
 	else
 	{
		return false;
 	}
}