as universally approved on discussions on dev list, replace new Array() with []. all tests pass ff & ie6

git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@3815 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf

lib/OpenLayers/Util.js

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ OpenLayers.Util = {};
  * This is the old $() from prototype
  */
 OpenLayers.Util.getElement = function() {
-    var elements = new Array();
+    var elements = [];
 
     for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
         var element = arguments[i];
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults = function (to, from) {
  *          of being URL escaped (foo%3Abar). 
  */
 OpenLayers.Util.getParameterString = function(params) {
-    paramsArray = new Array();
+    paramsArray = [];
     
     for (var key in params) {
       var value = params[key];
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ OpenLayers.Util.getParameterString = function(params) {
         var encodedValue;
         if (typeof value == 'object' && value.constructor == Array) {
           /* value is an array; encode items and separate with "," */
-          var encodedItemArray = new Array();
+          var encodedItemArray = [];
           for (var itemIndex=0; itemIndex<value.length; itemIndex++) {
             encodedItemArray.push(encodeURIComponent(value[itemIndex]));
           }
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ OpenLayers.Util.getNodes=function(p, tagName) {
  * {Array}
  */
 OpenLayers.Util._getNodes=function(nodes, tagName) {
-    var retArray = new Array();
+    var retArray = [];
     for (var i=0;i<nodes.length;i++) {
         if (nodes[i].nodeName==tagName) {
             retArray.push(nodes[i]);