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by Thomas Beutel

Category: Google

Using jQuery and Prototype together while avoiding the dreaded element.dispatchEvent error

Here is what I do to avoid the dreaded “element.dispatchEvent is not a function” error. I load jQuery first, Prototype second, and then I use jQuery( ) instead of $( ) for all my jQuery calls.
<!– Set up jQuery and prototype together –>
<script src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi”></script>
<script>
google.load(”jquery”, “1.3.2″);
google.load(”prototype”, “1.6.0.3″);
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
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Comics for Communication

It was interesting that Google used a comic strip to effectively communicate the reasons why they are introducing a new browser called Chrome. I was especially taken in by the discussion of processes and tabs, a topic that would normally be rather dry.
Comics were recently used to communicate legal concepts to First Nation tribes in [...]