prototype

How to achieve hand drawn look in Visio diagrams?

I want to make a prototype of a website. Is there any visio stencil which gives a hand drawn look to the prototype? I found one such template with few shapes, but these are not enough to easily create a prototype: http://www.visguy.com/2008/08/20/indexed-shapes-for-that-hand-drawn-look/ ...

jRails vs. Prototype

I am not trying to make this a preference question, I am really wondering what people's experiences are with using jQuery and Rails or jRails for development. Most rails users including myself up to now have been using Prototype. However, I am mixing in a lot of jQuery plugins since they are so easy to use and extend. I am now thinkin...

Hide and show div element with prototype and scriptaculous

I'm trying to use prototype and scriptaculous to hide and display a div element but the function (below) to take advantage of the prototype setStyle property isn't working and I'm not sure what the problem is. <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> function bodyOnload() { $('content1').setStyle({ display: 'none'...

Prototype framework / call from button

I thought this was pretty straight forward but I don't get teh same results as the tutorials I read. I have a button on an html page that calls a fucntion in script tags. I also have a reference to the prototype.js file which I haven't even begun to implement yet. If I leave that reference in the page, my function call does not work from...

Scrollable div without overflow:auto ?? (javascript)

In my app I have 2 divs, one with a long list of products that can be dragged into another div (shopping cart). The product div has the overflow but it breaks prototype draggable elements. The prototype hacks are very obtrusive and not compatible with all browsers. So I am taking a different approach, is it possible to have a scrollable...

Using YUI and Prototype Together

I want to add a calendar control to a page that already includes Prototype and Scriptaculous. Not happy with any of the Prototype ones I could find, I'm considring using the YUI Calendar widget. I this likely to cause any problems? ...

JavaScript: correct prototype chain for Function

What is the correct output (meaning correct by the ECMA standard) of the following program? function nl(x) { document.write(x + "<br>"); } nl(Function.prototype); nl(Function.prototype.prototype); nl(Function.prototype.prototype == Object.prototype); nl(Function.prototype.prototype.prototype); Chrome and IE6 agree in saying: functio...

What does $$ mean in Javascript?

I am looking at some javascript code and it has this in a function: $$('.CssClass').each(function(x) { .... } ) I get that the intent is to apply the anonymous function to each element with a class of CssClass, but I can't work what the $$ refers to ... and can't google for $$! Update: thanks for the hints. The javascript comes fro...

playing flash movies in lightbox

I'm using JQuery and Prototype in this web application that I'm developing. I'm looking for a way to use Lightbox v2.04 by Lokesh Dhakar to play flash movies. If its not possible using the Lightbox v2.04 then what other ways can I accomplish the shadowing overlayed flash video pop-up with jquery and/or Prototype? The reason I'm set on...

Javascript Prototypal Inheritance Doubt II

Hi, I'been doing some inheritance in js in order to understand it better, and I found something that confuses me. I know that when you call an 'constructor function' with the new keyword, you get a new object with a reference to that function's prototype. I also know that in order to make prototypal inheritance you must replace the pro...

Ajax - Library or Plain Javascript

I've been doing a lot of reading about AJAX, and wanted to know which is the better way to approach things: by using a library such as jQuery using their built-in methods or creating JavaScript without a library for AJAX? ...

jquery equivalent for list.detect in prototype

What would be the jquery equivalent for list.detect in prototype? ...

Downscaled versions of jQuery or Prototype - JS framework selection

While considering the JS framework for my next project, I can see the scale clearly tipping towards jQuery, however, Prototype is getting good reviews, too. The issue I am thinking of is how to downscale these to have only the functionality I REALLY need. The latest jQuery seems to be 55k compressed, for instance, and I clearly need onl...

Convention for prototype inheritance in JavaScript

I see a lot of code like this: function Base() {} function Sub() {} Sub.prototype = new Base(); However, if you do: s = new Sub(); print(s.constructor == Sub); This is false. This seems confusing to me, since s's constructor is, indeed, Sub. Is it conventional/better to do this? function Base() {} function Sub() {} Sub.prototype =...

Ideas on making a javascript object name unique in ASP.Net?

I've created an ASP.Net user control that will get placed more than once inside of web page. In this control I've defined a javascript object such as: function MyObject( options ) { this.x = options.x; } MyObject.prototype.someFunction=function someFunctionF() { return this.x + 1; } In the code behind I've created MyObject in a s...

How to use javascript onclick on a DIV tag to toggle visibility of a section that contains clickable links?

Hi I've got a DIV section that has only its title visible initially. What I would like to achieve is that when the visitor clicks anywhere on the area of toggle_section the toggle_stuff div toggles between visible/hidden. <div id="toggle_section" onclick="javascript: new Effect.toggle('toggle_stuff', 'slide');"> <div id="toggl...

prototype and jQuery peaceful co-existence?

I know very little about JavaScript but despite this I'm trying to cobble something together on my wordpress blog. It's not working, and I don't know how to resolve it, and hey, that's what StackOverflow is for, right? Firstly, the error message is: Error: element.dispatchEvent is not a function Source File: http://.../wp-includes/js/p...

Have you ever used IFrame Shims on UL tags?

I ahve a menu structure that uses UL and LI elements to drop down from a main menu. The problem i am having (of course) is in IE6 where the menu drops behind SELECT elements despite the z-index. I have tried adding an IFram shim to the UL which contains the LI elements which are the menu items. The problem is the Shim sits on top of t...

Why does a JS preload appear to take longer than a regular image reference to load?

I have a bunch of images that I am preloading inside of a loop. One of these images is also loaded by the html, so I get a good look at how these two different methods perform. For measurement, I am using the Network pane of the Safari Web Inspector, after clearing the cache. The ClownFish image is 280KB, and when referenced by the HTML...

CSS stripped from content embeded via Javascript into Div

I have the following file file: <html> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="/Prototype.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function load_content() { new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater('content', '/UpdatedContent/, { method: 'post', frequency: 5 }); //var fileref = document.createElement("link");...