Dan, Are there any errors thrown, or does it just stop working? - kangax
On May 28, 10:11 am, BillyRayPreachersSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've found that having multile copies of the Prototype.js file on a > single page will cause IE6 and IE7 to throw JS errors - most notably > when using methods on elements that have been extended. For example, > take this quick test harness: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > <html> > <head> > <script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"></script> > > <script type="text/javascript"> > window.onload = function() { > alert( $('wibble').getElementsByClassName ); > } > </script> > </head> > > <body> > <div id="wibble"> > <p>Some text...</p> > </div> > </body> > </html> > > It works fine in Opera 9.26, Safari 3.1.1, IE 6, IE 7, and Fx > 2.0.0.14. If you duplicate the script include line for Protoype so > that 2 copies of the file are loaded, then you see "undefined" in IE6 > and IE7, while all other browsers behave as I would expect. > > Unfortunately, this is an issue for us as we're using a 3rd-party > widget on our page which delivers v1.6.0.2 of Prototype after our page > delivers the same version, and we have no control over what is loaded > from the remote servers. > > Is there any way that Prototype can be modifed to detect itself, and > gracefully do nothing if it's already on the page? > > Alternatively, given we're using the same version of Prototype as our > widget, is there any way of somehow "disabling" theirs before it is > loaded (so that when it is loaded, it does nothing, falling back on > our version)? > > Thanks! > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
