Beutelevision » Google http://beutelevision.com/blog2 by Thomas Beutel Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:13:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Using jQuery and Prototype together while avoiding the dreaded element.dispatchEvent error http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2009/08/28/using-jquery-and-prototype-together-and-avoiding-the-dreaded-elementdispatchevent-error/ http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2009/08/28/using-jquery-and-prototype-together-and-avoiding-the-dreaded-elementdispatchevent-error/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:13:27 +0000 Thomas Beutel http://beutelevision.com/blog2/?p=161 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() {
  jQuery('#helphide').hide();
  jQuery('#helpbutton').click( function(){
    jQuery('#helphide').toggle();
 });
 });
 </script>
]]> http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2009/08/28/using-jquery-and-prototype-together-and-avoiding-the-dreaded-elementdispatchevent-error/feed/ 6 Comics for Communication http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2008/09/02/comics-for-communication/ http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2008/09/02/comics-for-communication/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:11:02 +0000 Thomas Beutel http://beutelevision.com/blog2/?p=108 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 BC.

Geoff Brown recommends “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art”, a book that discusses the use of comics for communication. It was written in 1994, but is still #1 in Amazon’s “Cartooning” category.

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