Every time that I have had a stack overflow its been because of a
continuous, recursive call (same function gets continually called inside a
loop until there is no more room on the stack to make another call (stack
gets depleted hence the stack overflow)).

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com>wrote:

> Which lightbox, and which version of Prototype? This error means that
> you're asking IE to do something (usually) that's part of the extended
> Prototype canon, but you're asking it on an object which has not been
> extended by Prototype yet. Normal JavaScript engines don't need this bit of
> coddling -- adding a method to the prototype of one element adds it to all
> of them. But IE doesn't follow those rules, so each element that you act on
> needs to be passed through a function which explicitly copies all of the
> Prototype.js methods into it before it can be used. The difference between
> your code working and not will be subtle, as in the difference between
> $(element) and element.
>
> Walter
>
> On Mar 15, 2011, at 9:33 PM, The Dark Lord wrote:
>
> ok, well as i said i was not a javascript guru, but i think i may have
>> found the issue after going through the IE debugger... it appears that
>> lightbox that i'm using is causing the issue with an endless loop or
>> something which is causing the stack overflow. and it is the reason
>> for the handler not defined... when i got rid of lightbox all the
>> issues went away. I don't know enough about javascript to figure out
>> how to make it work properly but i am smart enough to get rid of
>> something that is broke. So no more lightbox. I can prolly make me a
>> simple modal window for my needs... if not, i will just go the old
>> fashion way of doing things :(
>>
>> anyways, if anyone wants to look into what i found i can post more
>> information about such as the lines i found the errors on.
>>
>> thanks for your time guys/gals
>>
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