How can I determine a web user's time zone?
Is there a standard way for a web server to determine what time zone offset a user is in? From an HTTP header or part of the user-agent description, perhaps? ...
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How can I tell if a web client is blocking ads?
I'd like to get some statistics on how many people coming to my site have set their browser to block ads. Any tips on the best way to do this?...
Drag and Drop to a hosted Browser control
I have a WinForms program written on .NET 2 which hosts a webbrowser control and renders asp.net pages from a known server. I would like to be able to drag, say, a tree node from a treeview in my winforms app into a specific location in the hosted web page and have it trigger a javascript event there. Currently, I can implement the IDoc...
Other browsers
I'm aware of IE, Safari, Firefox and Opera but are there any other browsers out there that are worth knowing about? I've had several friends that don't like IE but then some of the above don't work on their computer either and I felt it'd be nice to have a few more alternatives....
Getting the text from a drop-down box
This gets the value of whatever is selected in my dropdown menu. document.getElementById('newSkill').value I cannot however find out what property to go after for the text that's currently displayed by the drop down menu. I tried "text" then looked at W3Schools but that didn't have the answer, does anybody here know? For those not su...
IE6: To support or not to support.
As most Web developers know, IE6 is a pain to support when it comes to making a website look and feel just as in the other major browsers (Firefox and IE7). I'd like to know what are the feelings of other developers toward supporting IE6 on their websites. Of course if your main user base uses IE6 or if you're working for a client that ...
Preferred way to use favicons?
I was trying to add a favicon to a website earlier and looked for a better way to implement this than to dump a favicon.ico file in the root of the website. I found this nice little guide: How to Add a Favicon. However, the preferred method did not work in IE (7) and the second method is the old fashioned way (which I resigned myself to...
Javascript events
I'm aware of things like "onchange", "onmousedown" and "onmouseup" but is there a good reference somewhere that lists all of them complete with possibly a list of the elements that they cover?...
Best WYSIWYG CSS editor?
[rant] boy how I hate CSS! it's an art that I have no clue about! Spend hours making everything look dandy then you look at the same site in a different browser... WT... I though this was supposed to be a standard!! [/rant] What I really want is a WYCIWYG editor. No not dreamweaver! An editor where you can define an element and ...
How to get PNG transparency working in browsers that don't natively support it?
Our (beloved) designer keeps creating PNG files with transparent backgrounds for use in our applications. I'd like to make sure that this feature of the PNG works in "older" browsers as well. What's the best solution? edits below @mabwi & @syd - Whether or not I agree about the use of a PNG is not the point. This is a problem that I ne...
Getting selected text in a browser, cross-platform.
One of the things I'd like to do in my browser-based application is allow the user to select some text (not in a <textarea>, just plain ol' text!), and have my application pop up a small toolbar that then can interact with the next (in my case, add annotations). I've found a lot of stuff on google that seems to be focused on writing WYS...
Browser Sync accross many machines
Everyone remembers google browser sync right? I thought it was great. Unfortunately Google decided not to upgrade the service to Firefox 3.0. Mozilla is developing a replacement for google browser sync which will be a part of the Weave project. I have tried using Weave and found it to be very very slow or totally inoperable. Granted they...
HTML differences between browsers
Do you know of any differences in handling HTML tags/properties in different browsers? For example, I once saw a page with a input tag with a maxlength field set to "2o". Firefox and Opera ignore the "o", and set the max length to 2, while Internet Explorer ignores the field altogether. Do you know of any more? (Note: seeing as this wil...
Building Standalone Applications in JavaScript
With the increased power of JavaScript frameworks like YUI, JQuery, and Prototype, and debugging tools like Firebug, doing an application entirely in browser-side JavaScript looks like a great way to make simple applications like puzzle games and specialized calculators. Is there any downside to this other than exposing your source code...
Hyperlinks displaced on IE7
Browse to a webpage with hyperlinks using IE (I am using IE7) Once on the page, enlarge the fonts using ctl + mouse wheel. Now when you try to hover over the hyperlinks, they are laterally displaced to the right. To click on the link, i have to move the mouse to the right till the cursor turns into a hand. Anyone has a comment on this...
Recommendations for browser add-on tools to help with development
Can anyone suggest some good browser add-on tools/extensions to help with development? I have firebug installed in Firefox which is great for dealing with CSS, HTML and javascript; any other suggestions? Firebug ...
Best way to fix CSS/JS drop-down problem in IE7 when page includes Google Map
I have a page using < ul > lists for navigation (Javascript changes the styling to display or not on mouseover). This is working fine for me except in IE6 and IE7 when I have a Google Map on the page. In this case the drop-down simply does not work. However, the page continues to work in FireFox 2. I have done a little bit of research...
Version detection with Silverlight
How can I efficiently and effectively detect the version and, for that matter, any available information about the instance of Silverlight currently running on the browser? ...
Limitations of screen readers.
I'm a web developer, and I want to make the web sites I develop more accessible to those using screen readers. What limitations do screen readers have that I should be most aware of, and what can I do to avoid hitting these limitations. This question was sparked by reading another question about non-image based captchas. In there, a c...
Browser scrollbar
I have a website that is perfectely centered aligned. The CSS code works fine. The problem doesn't really have to do with CSS. I have headers for each page that perfectely match eachother. However, when the content gets larger, Opera and FireFox show a scrollbar at the left so you can scroll to the content not on the screen. This makes ...