[Proto-Scripty] Uhh... is this a bug?

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
show()/hide() Set the style inline with style=display:none and show/hide works but set the style in css and all of a sudden it doesn't work. http://jsfiddle.net/ppetree/pA5eN/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Uhh... is this a bug?

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
This just seems really, really odd... THATS where they decide to draw the line? LOL Finally working on that context sensitive help system, will post it later today. On Jun 9, 2013 12:56 PM, Walter Lee Davis wa...@wdstudio.com wrote: On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Phil Petree wrote:

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Uhh... is this a bug?

2013-06-09 Thread Walter Lee Davis
On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Phil Petree wrote: This just seems really, really odd... THATS where they decide to draw the line? LOL I believe this architectural decision was made at a time in history when introspecting the CSS cascade to discover if an element was actually visible at the

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Uhh... is this a bug?

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
That's when you add a flag that when true includes CSS... I mean if the whole point of using a framework is for simplicity that would surely cover it. On Jun 9, 2013 1:07 PM, Walter Lee Davis wa...@wdstudio.com wrote: On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Phil Petree wrote: This just seems really,

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
Here's what I've come up with on the context sensitive help system (thanks to a few tips from Walter). I'm not crazy about the idea of having to include the hidden modalWindow on each page that uses the help but I found it much simpler than doing it all inline (maybe that's just my lacko skill set

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-09 Thread Monty Munro
To get around the idea of having the embedded modalWindow in your html, you could build it and inject it on dom:loaded document.observe('dom:loaded', function () { var helpShell = String() + div class='help_title'Helpdiv class='help_close'/div/div + div id='help'

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
Inserting has it's merits in that the centering method I used will not work if you have scrolled way down via the scroll bars so inserting the modalWindow will keep the help popup near the element from which the help was invoked... on the flip side, I've had issues with inserting new elements and