function News(url, cat, mode, short, span, link, id, onready)  
{
    

    // create Ajax-Objects    
    this.browser = navigator.userAgent;
    this.ie      = (document.all)?1:0;
    this.opera   = (this.browser.search(/opera/i)   > 0)? 1 : 0;
    this.mozilla = (this.browser.search(/mozilla/i) > 0)? 1 : 0;
    this.IEXObjs = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0", "MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0", "MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0", "MSXML2.XMLHttp", "Microsoft.XMLHttp"];

     this.myEncodeURIComponent = function(s)
    {
        return((encodeURIComponent)? encodeURIComponent(s) : escape(s));
    };

    this.getRequestObject = function()
    {
        var req = null;

        try
        {
            req = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        catch(e) {}
        
        if (!req)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < this.IEXObjs.length; i++)
            {
                try
                {
                    req = new ActiveXObject(this.IEXObjs[i]);
                    if (req != null) break;
                }
                catch (e) {}
            }
        }

        if (!req && window.createRequest) req = window.createRequest();
        return req;
    };

    // Sends a XMLHttpRequest to call the specified PHP function on the server
    this.call = function(sUri, id, onready)
    {   
        sUri += "&rnd=" + Math.random();   
        request.reqType = 0;  // get
        request.onreadystatechange = function()
        {
            if (request.readyState != 4) document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = 'Loading News ...';
            else if (request.status == 200) 
            {
                document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = request.responseText;
                if (onready != null) eval(onready);
                //delete(request);
            }
        }        
        request.open("GET", sUri, true);
        request.send(null);
    };

    // Call Ajax-Loader
    var request = new Object();
    request = this.getRequestObject();
    this.call(url+((url.indexOf("?")==-1)? "?":"&")+"cat="+cat+"&mode="+mode+"&short="+short+"&span="+span+"&link="+link, id, onready);       

}