I will add this... updating prototype, in my experience, has minimal side affects and most of those are actually positive. On Jul 17, 2013 6:22 PM, "Joseph Lust" <lifeofl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow. I wonder why it just this minute came up for moderation? That's >> Google Groups for you... > > > Just ran into the problem, so posted my solution. > > Is there a specific reason you are using such an old (years!) version of >> Prototype? 1.7.1 is current, and even it is getting a little long in the >> tooth > > > Someone decided in 2007 in that 1.5.1 was a good version. App was built in > 2010. No one wanted to do a full regression to test a newer version since. > Why are other conflicting libs loaded? Someone wiser than I thought it wise > to have Prototype, JQuery, and DOMAssistant in the same page. In this case, > it is causing issues, but sadly there are dependencies on all three > throughout a very large code base. > > Are you trying to get an array of classnames from an element, or are you >> trying to remove a class from an element? Because there's the >> Element#removeClassName if the latter. It does pretty much what you do >> here, except it returns an extended element, not an array of strings. You >> could get the former with this: >> $(this).**removeClassName(**classNameToRemove).className.** >> toString().split(/\s+/); > > > Because the internal *includes()* method is corrupted via DOMAssistant's > overwriting of the *each()* method, the built in methods for * > removeClassName*()* *break. Because I cannot change the libs in use (I > really would like to), I created an alternative remove method that does not > use *each*() and implemented it in this case. Not pretty, but it works. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
