Re: [Proto-Scripty] help for a newbie with Ajax.PeriodicUpdater

2011-03-24 Thread Alex McAuley
have you tried appending a random number to the end of the URL - it will bypass IE's cache and thus get pass the decay. HTH Alex -- From: John johndobso...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:15 PM To: Prototype script.aculo.us

Re: [Proto-Scripty] help for a newbie with Ajax.PeriodicUpdater

2011-03-24 Thread Alex McAuley
Or make it post -- From: John johndobso...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:15 PM To: Prototype script.aculo.us prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Subject: [Proto-Scripty] help for a newbie with Ajax.PeriodicUpdater Hi I need

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Why is there a $super-Parameter?

2011-03-24 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi On Mar 24, 4:54 pm, Luke kickingje...@gmail.com wrote: It's late, but I have to ask something though that it still don't understand. Why *doesn't* prototype just add a reference to the parent-class in subclasses? Like klass.prototype.superclass = superclass ...in Class.Create. Is it

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Why is there a $super-Parameter?

2011-03-24 Thread Luke
It's late, but I have to ask something though that it still don't understand. Why *doesn't* prototype just add a reference to the parent-class in subclasses? Like klass.prototype.superclass = superclass ...in Class.Create. Is it because the *this*-reference would go out of scope? -- You

[Proto-Scripty] Re: future of script.aculo.us

2011-03-24 Thread joe t.
The biggest difference between the two at their core is that Prototype directly modifies javascript's native objects (Array, Object, String, etc.) while jQuery does not. A more subtle difference is how the use of the $() function to address DOM objects. Prototype's $() receives a simple string (or

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Why is there a $super-Parameter?

2011-03-24 Thread joe t.
i'd been kicking the sand wondering if i should go ahead and ask you to re-post that link, because i'd seen it months ago and then lost it. Glad this came up again (as i'm sure it will in the future) so i could just jump at the link and say thank you. And you're exactly right about the