On Monday 05 October 2009 13:13:13 Alex Mcauley wrote:
> Afternoon peoples, hope everyone had a good weekend.
>
> Got a sligt problem... I have been developing a new app that needs an
> iframe to upload an image...
>
> All of this is done and working properly but i need to use some
> prototypejs functions fro the parent document...
>
> I can simple call with "parent.myFunction();" for it to work...
>
> Will prototype functions work this way aswell...
>
> Something like...
>
> parent.$('myIframeElement').observe(...........
>
>
> Or will it completely not work like that ... I dont want to re-
> download prototype to the browser from inside the iframe as it will
> slow it down and is not neccessaryMy advice is to switch away from iframes. You can use them with prototype but I've always found it creates lots of problems. Prototype assumes a single, global document and window. When there are two it often goes wrong, even if you load it twice. For example, you can replace iframes+designMode with div+contentEditable, possibly making the div scroll with overflow:scroll. HTH, Jim -- Jim my wiki ajaxification thing: http://wikizzle.org my blog: http://jimhigson.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
