Hi David,
Google document a nicer way to deal with this in their documentation.
The Google API can call a javascript callback when the library you
requested has been loaded.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#GoogleLoad
Cheers,
Alex
On Dec 24, 11:44 pm, "speedpac...@gmail.com" <speedpac...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Sorry for the late response, but thanks a lot for this feedback. It
> does indeed help.
> I'm only a bit disappointed that I now have 4 <script>google.load()</
> script> blocks :)
>
> thanks a lot though!
> David.
>
> On 17 dec, 03:08, Michael Geary <m...@mg.to> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Put your lines of code in separate <script> tags.
>
> > google.load() uses document.write() to write a <script> tag into the
> > document. This <script> tag is not executed until the current <script> tag
> > exits. So your jQuery.noConflict() call is being executed before jQuery is
> > loaded.
>
> > If you break up the <script> tags like this, it should work fine:
>
> > <script type="text/javascript>
> > google.load("jquery", "1");
> > </script>
>
> > <script type="text/javascript>
> > jQuery.noConflict();
> > google.load("prototype", "1");
> > </script>
>
> > -Mike
>
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM, speedpac...@gmail.com <
>
> > speedpac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > For obvious reasons, we try using Google to load javascript libraries
> > > when we need them.
> > > We already used Prototype using google.load() function, and now we
> > > decided to add jQuery as well since we will be using some jQuery UI
> > > widgets to speed up development on a project (more specifically we
> > > need a decent date selector!
>
> > > Basically, what we did is:
>
> > > google.load("jquery", "1");
> > > jQuery.noConflict();
> > > google.load("prototype", "1");
>
> > > Unfortunately, for some reason, it complains that noConflict() is no
> > > method leading me to believe tha the jQuery code isn't loaded properly
> > > prior to calling the noConflict() method...
>
> > > We have never had such an issue in the past, and if we link directly
> > > to the .js file hosted on google servers without using the google.load
> > > () method, it works fine as well...
>
> > > Does anyone know this is a known issue when working with google.load
> > > ()?
>
> > > Since we manage the needed libraries through a database, and use the
> > > google.load() function for all these libraries, it would be a shame if
> > > we need to include jQuery library directly without using the
> > > google.load() method :)
>
> > > thanks in advance for your very much appreciated feedback!
>
> > > David.
