Scriptaculous / Prototype stupidity

Sometimes, just sometimes, I feel like running into a wall. Head first. If only I was not so unfit. I made a stupid bloody Prototype Ajax mistake. Get so damn irritated with myself! Don’t make the same bloody mistake! My head is clearly at the rugby. That will teach me.

So what I did was the following:

function callAjax() {
    ...
    var myAjaxCall = Ajax.Updater('thediv', '/the/url', {onComplete: function(){ new Effect.Highlight('thediv');}});
    ...
}

Firebug gave me the following error:

this.initialize has no properties
[Break on this error] this.initialize.apply(this, arguments);

This means (translated into the “YouStupidGeek” dialect):

“You stupid dumbass! How the hell can you forget the new keyword before the Ajax.Updater !”

So, don’t forget that… and now its time to see New Zealand get knocked out the World Cup by France!

2 Comments to "Scriptaculous / Prototype stupidity"

• stii.za.net » Blog Archive » New Zealand and Australia out! Who would have predicted THAT! said: On 10/06/2007 at 10:00 pm

  [...] must be the most interesting Rugby World Cup ever! In my previous post I said: “and now its time to see New Zealand get knocked out the World Cup by France!” [...]

• Chris M said: On 10/07/2007 at 12:26 am

  haha, I’ve never used Scriptaculous or any other Ajax engine type system, but I’m thinking more and more these days that I really should give it a go. It’s getting tiring writing my own modules from the bottom up!

Spit it out!

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