jQuery and old Prototype on the same page
July 21st, 2009 | 1 comment
This morning I had to implement an interactive map that allows one to locate local dealers of GPS equipment. The site I needed to do this on is running an extremely old version of prototype.js (version 1.5, circa 2007) and moodom.js (the precursor to MooTools). I didn’t want to use these outdated libraries to create the little interactive app. I would normally use MooTools, but I needed a library I could namespace so that I wouldn’t step on Prototype’s shoes. I grabbed the latest build of jQuery, namespaced it using the jQuery.noConflict(); technique, wrote my code, and included it right before…
Google Chrome Extensions Update
July 10th, 2009
EDIT: Check here for updates to Hacker News OnePage A new update to Chrome brought a better packaging system for extensions, but also broke all the extensions packaged with the old system. So here are the new Hacker News and Digg extensions that will work with chrome. Hacker News OnePage (install): Provides users with the ability to browse Hacker News articles and comments without leaving the page. source – manifest Digg AdBlocker (install): Removes ads from digg. source – manifest