The domready event for Prototype
I've been a Mootools user for a while, but Prototype was a better fit for a project I was working on. Mootools adds thedomready event to the window object which fires when the DOM has finished loading. This is a lot nicer than window's built-in onload event which fires after everything has loaded including images, stylesheets, etc.
When I started with Prototype, I could not find the equivalent, and Google searches came up with other people's add-ons for Prototype to bring this functionality in. I tried a few that I found, and I couldn't get any to work reliably. I modified the best code I found, merging some ideas from Yahoo's YUI library and eventually got it working. The other day, however, I found that Prototype actually does have this already built-in; it's just that it's part of the document object, and has a different name: dom:loaded. To use it, you do:
document.observe("dom:ready", function() { alert("The DOM has loaded!"); });
Here's the link to Prototype's documentation on this.
Posted at 11:25
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this is exactly the solution I was looking for...prototype's built-in are much better that any add-ons - Yasel, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |  |
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