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-/* Copyright (c) EMBL-EBI 2016
-   Maintainers: 
-   Peter Walter (pwalter@ebi.ac.uk)
-*/
-
-/* DISABLED 
-  * Close this comment to enable.
-  * We comment out the entire function so this file is minified to nothing, when not needed.
-(function downtimeMessage() {
-  // user configuration at bottom of this file
-  try {
-    function showMessage(title, body, domains, paths) {
-      var matchPath=false, matchDomain=false;
-      var i, pattern;
-      
-      for (i=0; i<domains.length; i++) {
-        // convert shell match to regular expression
-        domains[i] = domains[i].replace('.', '\.'); 
-        domains[i] = domains[i].replace('*', '.*');
-        domains[i] = domains[i].replace('?','.');
-        domains[i] = '^' + domains[i] + '$';
-
-        // check if pathname matches
-        pattern = new RegExp(domains[i], '');
-        if (pattern.test(document.domain)) {
-          matchDomain=true;
-        }
-      }
-      for (i=0; i<paths.length; i++) {
-        // convert shell match to regular expression
-        paths[i] = paths[i].replace('.', '\.'); 
-        paths[i] = paths[i].replace('*', '[^/]*');
-        paths[i] = paths[i].replace('?','[^/]');
-        paths[i] = '^' + paths[i] + '/?$';
-
-        // check if pathname matches
-        pattern = new RegExp(paths[i], '');
-        if (pattern.test(document.location.pathname)) {
-          matchPath=true;
-        }
-      }
-
-      // abort if domain/path does not match
-      if (!matchDomain || !matchPath) {
-        return;
-      }
-
-      // build downtime message
-      var downtime = document.createElement('div');
-      downtime.className = 'downtime-message';
-      downtime.innerHTML = '<div class="callout"><h5>' + title + '</h5><p><span class="downtime-note"></span> ' + body + '</p></div>';
-
-      var hasBreadcrumb = document.getElementById('breadcrumb') !== null;
-      // find content area (#main for D6-mit, #content for D7, #conetntsarea for migiated
-      var contents = (document.getElementById('main') || document.getElementById('content') || document.getElementById('contentsarea'));
-      if (hasBreadcrumb) {
-        // place after breadcrumb
-        var breadCrumb = document.getElementById('breadcrumb');
-        contents.insertBefore(downtime, breadCrumb.nextSibling);
-      }
-      else {
-        // place at top of content area
-        contents.insertBefore(downtime, contents.childNodes[0]);
-      }
-    }
-
-    // to display downtime message, create call to showmessage(string title, string body, array domains, array paths)
-    // in body parameter, use <strong> to highlight dates, eg <strong>Tuesday, 14th May 20:00 BST</strong>
-    showMessage(
-     'Maintaining the Hinxton data centre, 26-30 August',
-     'Due to planned essential maintenance at one of our data centres, some EMBL-EBI services may be unavailable or experience degraded performance. We thank you for your patience while we complete this work.',
-     ['www.ebi.ac.uk'],
-     ['/', '/services', '/research', '/training', '/industry', '/about', '/support/*', '/ebisearch/search.ebi', '/training/online']
-    );
-  }
-  catch (err) {
-  }
-})();
-*/