why not call it with "top" or "parent" .... top.function...... works fine in vanilla JS so i dont see why it wont work in prototype
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Higson" <j...@wikizzle.org> To: "Prototype & script.aculo.us" <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Copying Prototype into an iframe > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
