[thelist] Little piece of Javascript code

[Maisha Walker]

Hello all!

My javascript programmer is out of town and (thanks to David Sieband for the
insight!) I realize that I'm in need of someone to write a little Javascript
code for a project.

I have a calendar which shows the details of each event in a pop-up window.
When people click on a link (either from the site or from an email) for a
particular event, I'd like both the calendar and the detail page for that
event to open up so that the user doesn't have to click twice.

But there will also be times when someone will just click on the calendar
link so no event detail window will open.

I need some javascript code for the calendar page that will check for the
existence of event detail information in the URL (something like
calendar.htm#eventname), and then open up the appropriate event window.

Can anyone out there write that or know where I can find something similar?
I don't really have time to learn all about javascript (I have to focus on
other stuff so I'd rather leave it to the pros :o) but I'm generally a quick
study so and I know some of the basics so if its really easy I can do it
from an example of something similar!

Many thanks!
Maisha