Hi, As some background, under Moz, Prototype adds to Element.prototype (I think this is correct, I haven't checked the source) the methods become available on every Element. On IE, Prototype can't extend Element.prototype so it wraps the element instead.
This gets more complicated when you are using an iframe (eg, in designmode for a wysiwyg editor). Now, if from the parent window you get an element from the child window and call $(element) you have an unextended element, even if the element were created in the parent frame. This is true in Moz, I'm not sure in IE (don't have a windows box handy right now) but I suspect in IE $(element) has the Prototype methods available because the wrapping would still work. What seems to be happening is there is a window.Element and a separate otherwindow.Element and when you move an Element from one window to another the Element object's prototype chain gets modified to contain the other window's Element. I'm thinking maybe it would be possible to do something like: otherWindow.Ajax = Ajax; otherWindow.Enumerable = Enumerable; otherWindow.Element = Element; otherWindow.$ = $; Has anybody tried this? Is there an 'approved' way to load Prototype into a subframe? The reason I don't just want to add a <script> to the iframe is my web application wraps all the code up into a single file (prototype, scriptaculous, my stuff) and I never thought the components would have to be loaded separately - seems a bit inefficient to distribute certain parts twice. Thanks for any help, Jim -- Jim my wiki ajaxification thing: http://wikizzle.org my blog: http://jimhigson.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
