diff --git a/www-client/mozilla-firefox/dynamic-welcome-version1.html b/www-client/mozilla-firefox/dynamic-welcome-version1.html
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+<html>
+       <head>
+               <title>Opening the welcome page...</title>
+               <script type="text/javascript">
+                       function fileExists(filename) {
+                               try {
+                                       netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");
+                               } catch (e) {
+                                       alert("Permission to read file was denied.");
+                               }
+                               var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(
+                                       Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
+                               file.initWithPath(filename);
+                               return file.exists();
+                       }
+
+                       window.onload = function() {
+                               var url = "http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk/docs/welcome/welcome.html";
+                               var localWelcome = "/boot/system/documentation/welcome/welcome.html";
+
+                               if (fileExists(localWelcome))
+                                       url = "file://" + localWelcome;
+
+                               window.open(url, "_self");
+                       }
+
+               </script>
+       </head>
+       <body>
+               Opening the welcome page...
+       </body>
+</html>
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diff --git a/www-client/mozilla-firefox/dynamic-welcome-version2.html b/www-client/mozilla-firefox/dynamic-welcome-version2.html
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> 
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<meta name="robots" content="all" />
+<title>Welcome to Haiku!</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../Haiku-doc.css" />
+<script type="text/javascript">
+var xmlhttp;
+var offLineWelcomePage = 'file:///boot/system/documentation/welcome/welcome.html';
+var onLineWelcomePage = 'http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk/docs/welcome/welcome.html';
+
+function redirect()
+{
+
+xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
+xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=state_Change;
+try
+{
+	xmlhttp.open("GET",offLineWelcomePage);
+	xmlhttp.send(null);
+}
+catch(err)
+{
+
+    window.location = onLineWelcomePage;
+}
+}
+
+function state_Change()
+{
+
+if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
+{// 4 = "loaded"
+	if (xmlhttp.status==200 ||xmlhttp.status==0)
+	{// 200 = "OK"; loading from file:// so no http status set! hence status == 0.
+		if(xmlhttp.responseText.length != 0)
+		    window.location = offLineWelcomePage;
+		else
+		       	window.location = onLineWelcomePage;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		alert("Problem retrieving data:" + xmlhttp.statusText);
+	}
+}
+
+}
+</script>
+</head>
+<body onload="redirect()">
+</body>
+</html>
+
