function init_popups() { 
//alert("loading");
   // check to see that the browser supports the getElementsByTagName method 
   // if not, exit the loop 
   if (!document.getElementsByTagName) { 
      return false; 
   } 
   // create an array of objects of each link in the document 
   var popuplinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); 
   
   // loop through each of these links (anchor tags)     
   for (var i=0; i < popuplinks.length; i++) {    
      // if the link has a class of "popup"...    
      /*if (popuplinks[i].getAttribute("class") == "popup") {    
         // add an onclick event on the fly to pass the href attribute    
         // of the link to our second function, openPopUp     
         popuplinks[i].onclick = function() {    
			 openPopUp(this.getAttribute("href"));    
			 return false;     
         }   
	  }*/
		 
		if (popuplinks[i].className == "popup") { 
		   // add an onclick event on the fly to open a new browser window 
		   popuplinks[i].onclick = function() { 
		 		window.open(this.getAttribute("href"), null, "height=300,width=400,status=np,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no, scrollbar=yes"); 
		   		return false; 
		   } 
		}	
		
   } 
} 

function openPopUp(linkURL) { 
   window.open(linkURL,'popup','width=400,height=200') 
}