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why has noone sorted out the mess of browsers, HTML/css and javascript

Why hasn't someone gone and sorted at least most of the discrepancies between browsers, take for example: -webkit-border-radius: 100px; -moz-border-radius: 100px; border-radius: 100px; or gradients? In the above example why did mozilla have to have their own version? And if it's because they had support for border radius before the C...

Detecting Effective Invisible HTML elements

Is there a way to detect if a rendered DOM element has the same color as its background, effectively being invisible invisible elements (that is: elements invisible not because of display style property, but based on color only), possibly through a framework/tool that works at least on one browser? Ideally, it would be able to detect ver...

Some confusion with GET/POST requests

a) Based on what information does web application decide whether a particular request is a GET request? Simply by checking whether requested url contains any query string parameters? b) When page http://some_domain/A.aspx is first requested (either by clicking a link element<a..> or by manually entering URL into address bar), I assum...

Strangest problem with IE6 not submitting a form

I need expert advice here... I have run into the strangest problem in my career... I have a form with alot of "SELECT" tags. Each tag contains a large amount of "OPTION" tags. The form wont submit at all, but when I remove parts of the form content (for example, some SELECT tags), then the form will submit properly. However, there is...

Workaround for too long querystring in IE6, IE7?

I have a form which submits fine in FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome, and also IE8... But it wont submit in IE6, or IE7... I have noticed it is 99% sure that the problem is a too long querystring. I have many many options... Now, changing the method to POST is out of the question here, so don't bother asking about this please... I wonder, is...

can we install and use ie6 & ie7 at the sametime?

hi folks, i have ie6 installed on my winxp system..can i install ie7 separately and use both of them at the same...if it possible advise me.. thanks.. ...

Short question: Any good way to view a forms querystring?

I have a form which uses the "GET" method. This might be a stupid question... I would need to view the full querystring somehow, of the form when submitting it? I have Firebug if that would help somehow... Thanks ...

Developing FireFox extension, clipboard

I want to listen on an event (clipboard event ?) in order to alter the clipboards content. Actually i did not find out how i can grab the clipboards content after it has been filled (using ctrl+c). I tried to redefine the shortcut ctrl+c, but this way i only get what was in the clipboard before i pushed the shortcut. Where do i need t...

Request is not considered a postback even though …

a) In Asp.Net we can check whether a request is a postback or not via Page.IsPostBack property.But where does this property get its value from? Thus, where in the incoming request does browser put this value? b) As far as I can tell, hitting a reload button also causes browser to send form data back to the server. Thus, is under the h...

image resize on output with jquery

hi i have made a system using which a image would be re sized according to the browser window The example here The code example function scale_down() { scale = 0; console.log(img_width + ' ' + img_height); scale= ( img_width / winwidth ); if ( ( img_height / scale) < winheight ) ...

Wordpress cforms session gets lost only in Firefox!

Hi there, I am using wordpress 3.0 with cforms (newest version). Here I use a multi-page form. It works fine in Internet Explorer It works fine in Safari It works fine in Google Chrome It does not work in Firefox! After Step 2 you get redirected to Step 1 instead of 3. In the debug information you can see it lost the session and creat...

Any way to make this css work in most IE versions?

I have this code to cast a shadow on imagese: .shadow{ box-shadow: -2px 2px 4px #666; -webkit-box-shadow: -2px 2px 4px #666; -moz-box-shadow: -2px 2px 4px #666; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(color=#666, offX=-2, offY=2, positive=true); } This works in FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome but not in IE6 (haven't tested any ...

Paint on Canvas in Android's browser, page scroll?

I'm trying to make a canvas where the client can sign his name. It works well in Chrome v6: but on Android 1.5 instead of drawing the browser scrolls the page and draws nothing: I borrows the code from Opera's website. Can I disable the scrolling or how can I make this work? Thank you! EDIT using the events touchstart, touchmove ...

IE6 domain cookie limit of 20?

I've been trying to get to the bottom of this -- and was wondering if anyone can verify. Does IE6 still only support 20 domain cookies at this time? I've found some MS articles online that indicate the domain cookie limit was increased in 2007 to 50 -- but, it's unclear if the article is discussing IE7. ...

Calling ActionScript (Flash) method via mshtml from C#

Hi, I use the WebBrowser component from WPF. I load there a page from Internet and I access the Document property to call my scripts. Unfortunately calling scripts don't work as I need. When I am calling JavaScript methods which exist in JavaScript so it works great but when I need access some methods which are available through Flash s...

Select items runs fine in Chrome et al but not on Android G-1 browser?

This little web page runs fine on my desktop but when selecting the area with a G-1 Android device (select box that says statewide..) the data refreshed with the requested data in the table but the text in the select box does not change,,, the other select boxes (month and year) work fine.. Fwiw the data is still rough and so is the gadg...

proper syntax for multiple values in a column in sqlite database browser

so i know this is a ridiculously silly question but im brand new to sql/sqlite and only 2 weeks into android programming.. but how to i enter multiple values into a single column in sqlite database browser? is there a proper syntax for it? ive got 2 columns.. groups and names and each group contains multiple names.. ie - group 1 = "john...

Web browser audio on old Windows Mobile 2003

I have a HP iPAQ h4150 running Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 and trying to get any kind of sound from a web page in IE 4 (or any other free browser). I just need the ability for a notification beep. Any method will do - javascript, flash, java applet, background process listening on a port (pythonce, etcl, and so on). Thanks you. ...

VoIP client in a browser?

Google just announced that they will add support for VoIP calls in its Gmail application. Does someone know how this will work? Did they manage to write a web-based VoIP client, or will they require the user to have Google Talk installed and somehow (how?) call this app from the browser? I'd also like to provide customers with a way to...

How to prevent the middle-button from opening a new tab in the browser?

I have a group of links on a page. when the user clicks a link it triggers an asynchronous request and a content area on the page is updated with the response html. This works fine, except for if the user clicks the link with the 'middle-button' (or mouse wheel, whatever it's called!). Then a new tab opens and the response gets returned...