function MM_preloadImages () {
    if (document.images) {
        var imgFiles = MM_preloadImages.arguments;
        if (document.preloadArray == null) {
            document.preloadArray = new Array();
        }
        var i = document.preloadArray.length;
        with (document) {
            for (var j = 0; j < imgFiles.length; j++) {
                if (imgFiles[j].charAt(0) != "#") {
                    document.preloadArray[i] = new Image();
                    document.preloadArray[i++].src = imgFiles[j];
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

function onpageload () {
	
	MM_preloadImages('images/de_.gif', 'images/it_.gif', 'images/en_.gif');

}

function menuover (menuname) {
	if (!document.images) return;
	if (document.all) {
		var elem = document.getElementById(menuname);
		elem.style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(overlap='1', duration='0.3')";
		elem.filters[0].apply();
		elem.src = 'images/'+menuname+'_.gif';
		elem.filters[0].play();
	} else {
		document.getElementById(menuname).src = 'images/'+menuname+'_.gif';
	}
}

function menuout (menuname) {
	if (!document.images) return;
	if (document.all) {
		var elem = document.getElementById(menuname);
		elem.style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(overlap='1', duration='0.2')";
		elem.filters[0].apply();
		elem.src = 'images/'+menuname+'.gif';
		elem.filters[0].play();
	} else {
		document.getElementById(menuname).src = 'images/'+menuname+'.gif';
	}
}

onpageload();