{"id":803,"date":"2006-05-31T19:44:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=803"},"modified":"2006-05-31T19:44:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T23:44:02","slug":"prototype-tinymce-too-much-recursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/prototype-tinymce-too-much-recursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototype, tinyMCE, ‘too much recursion’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you happen to be using TinyMCE<\/a> and the Prototype<\/a> library together and you’re getting a ‘too much recursion’ error in FireFox, make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Prototype, which at the time of this post is version 1.5.0. Near as I can tell, the only way to get version 1.5.0 is to either a) check it out of the subversion repository<\/a> or b) download script.aculo.us<\/a>, which contains version 1.5.0 in the lib directory of the distribution.<\/p>\n

I think the ‘too much recursion’ Prototype \/ TinyMCE problem happens because Prototype stores a copy of the Array reverse function<\/a> in a property called _reverse:
\n
\nArray.prototype._reverse = Array.prototype.reverse;
\n<\/code>
\nand then redefines the reverse function, adding a argument ‘inline’:
\n
\nreverse: function(inline) {
\n  return (inline !== false ? this : this.toArray())._reverse();
\n}
\n<\/code>
\nSomehow (and I’m not sure how this would happen) the copy happens again, which means that _reverse() would point to the redefined reverse() method function, which of course points to _reverse(), which leads to a infinite loop. Hence, ‘too much recursion’.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the changelog from latest version of Prototype<\/a> has a pointer to issue #3951 (but it doesn’t appear that the issues are public): in short, version 1.5.0 of Prototype does a check to make sure that _reverse() hasn’t been defined:
\n
\nif (!Array.prototype._reverse)
\n  Array.prototype._reverse = Array.prototype.reverse;
\n<\/code>
\nIn related news, if you’re using script.aculo.us with TinyMCE, make sure to embed the script.aculo.us js after the TinyMCE js<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you happen to be using TinyMCE and the Prototype library together and you’re getting a ‘too much recursion’ error in FireFox, make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Prototype, which at the time of this post is version 1.5.0. Near as I can tell, the only way to get version 1.5.0 is … Continue reading Prototype, tinyMCE, ‘too much recursion’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}