prototype and jQuery peaceful co-existence?

Question

I know very little about JavaScript but despite this I\'m trying to cobble something together on my wordpress blog. It\'s not working, and I don\'t know how to resolve it, and h

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestions all. In the end I think Kent's explanation was the closest, which basically amounted to "Prototype is broken". (Sorry if I'm summarizing you incorrectly :)

As for the jQuery.noConflict option - I already mentioned this in the question. It makes a difference when you run this method, and I have very little control over that. As I said, I have tried running it in a couple of different places (specifically the page header and also from my script file), to no effect. So, much as we'd all like it to be, "just use noConflict" is not an answer to this question, at least not without additional information.

Besides, jQuery.noConflict seems to be about the $ variable, and the code around the error point does not deal with that variable at all. Of course they could be related indirectly, I haven't tracked it down.

So basically I ended up rewriting the script using jQuery instead of Prototype, which actually had its own problems. Anyway I've published the whole war story on my blog, should you be interested.