Amen, and amen.  It's (un)common courtesy to read a FAQ and spend a  
couple of minutes with Uncle Google before posting.  People are  
forgetting that.

I don't see an official FAQ at prototypejs.org.
http://www.google.com/search?q=FAQ+site%3Aprototypejs.org

I know a couple of users have worked on one--I think it'd be useful  
to have an official one.


TAG

On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Matt Foster wrote:

>
> Right? The same questions just keep coming up, it'd be sweet if people
> searched before they posted.  This is a pretty apparent complication
> of prototype, as well as thoroughly documented.
>
> Quoted from http://prototypejs.org/learn/extensions
>
> "Because the prototype of the native browser object is extended, all
> DOM elements have Prototype extension methods built-in. This, however,
> isn't true for IE which doesn't let anyone touch
> HTMLElement.prototype. To make the previous example work in IE you
> would have to extend the element with Element.extend(). Don't worry,
> the method is smart enough not to extend an element more than once."
>
>
> On Nov 8, 12:32 pm, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You know Tom, you should really just make that part of your sig- 
>> line...
>>
>> then you wouldn't have to type it out as much...
>>
>> just a thought lol
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2007 12:22 PM, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Yup.
>>
>>> IE doesn't extend *all* elements the way other browsers do, so  
>>> you'll
>>> have to make sure it happens.  Passing the element through $() takes
>>> care of this, as Prototype makes sure the element is properly
>>> extended as part of the function.
>>
>>> TAG
>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Alex MacCaw wrote:
>>
>>>> We're getting an issue with the latest prototype, IE6 and the  
>>>> function
>>>> addClassName. The error doesn't occur in any other browsers.
>>>> When we call addClassName on an element, IE displays an error 'A
>>>> Runtime Error has occured.' The error msg is: 'Object doesn't  
>>>> support
>>>> this property or method'. One more thing to add; we're calling this
>>>> function on an element we've created via document.createElement.  
>>>> If we
>>>> call it on an element created with the new Element syntax, it  
>>>> works. I
>>>> presume 'new Element' adds extra functions onto the element?
>
>
> >


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