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Save/Read user data across different browsers

I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now. My machine is a mac with snow leopard installed. I listen to music on http://listen.grooveshark.com/ using firefox, and I do not have a user account with them. When I leave the site and come back using firefox, I get an option to restore the songs that I had added to my pl...

Get URL from browser to C# application

How can I get the url from a running instance of Chrome or Opera using C# .NET windows form app? Thanks! ...

Is it possible to have a http client open another connection to the server or other users?

I would like to make a browser based game with multiple gamers in the same environment. So if I did a first person shooter type of game would a client be able to open a udp connection with the server? ...

Scheme relative URLs

Scheme relative URLs are something that I've just found out about - where you don't specify the scheme of a URL and it picks it up from the current context. For example: <img src="//domain.com/img.png" /> will resolve to https://domain.com/img.png if the current scheme is HTTPS or http://domain.com/img.png if it is not. This seems like...

Why can't IE allow a page to login using frames (multiple domains)?

I think I may know the answer to this question but I'm actually looking for some hard evidence/link to a statement from Microsoft on why this occurs. I have a domain name of "www.mycompany.com", which is HTTP. This page soley contains HTML with an iFrame redirecting to "application.anothercompany.com", which is HTTPS. The page that sits...

Back/Forward buttons in Flex applications

Hi, I have a Flex application which uses the BrowserManager class for enabling deep linking within the application. The URLs work fine through all browsers but the back/forward buttons work only with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Even that is a bit flaky and sometimes doesn't work. The buttons don't work in Chrome/Safari or any other b...

How to exclude some text from browser zoom

Yes, I know this is probably a bad thing to want to do. I have converted a web site to Drupal. I think I've done a reasonably good clean job with the markup and CSS starting with the Zen theme. All font sizes are set in em. It's a fixed width layout. That might be a bad decision but ... I basically copied the old site design. The menu ...

Is there a way to hide source code from all browsers?

Possible Duplicates: How to disable (View Source) and (Ctrl + C ) from my site How to disable or encrypt View Source for my site Is there a way to hide source code from all browsers, disabling the right click and removing the view source option in Mac and PC? ...

Chrome Extension /Javascript- detecting user language in Chrome Browser

what i need to know is: http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/315/19999578.gif , self explaining image :) is it possible in Chrome Browser? Thanks in advanced ...

Browser reading HTML from standard input

Does anyone know a Linux browser (it can be console-based) that can read an HTML page from its standard input? For example, I want to do this: generate_html | browser Thanks! ...

jquery testing - pausing the DOM?

Is there a way to sort of "pause" the DOM (in either firefox or chrome). Meaning, perhaps there's an animation happening and I'd like to be able to stop and see exactly what the markup looks like and such. Some animations happen too quickly for me to use "inspect element" or anything. ...

Any chance that ruby could be used on client side?

For scripting on web browsers, the only option now is using javascript. I wonder if Ruby ever could make it to the web browsers? It's highly unlikely cause MS doesn't have any reasons for letting Ruby to become first class citizen, wouldn't that be bad for their current platform? I don't know how Apple sees it. If Ruby can't be first ...

How to recognized the objects of already opened browser?

My actual problem is, I am opening a site www.abc.com. And I am selecting few options and clicking on Submit there. Now a new browser is launched with url xyz.com. (Complete new instance of I.E is launched) The new browser URL (www.xyz.com\1222) is framed with the selection I have made in abc.com. So when I change the selection, the URL...

Mixing percent and fixed CSS

This is a duplicate from UI.StackExchange.com: http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/1004/mixing-percent-and-fixed-css Should you ever apply percentage and fixed CSS together? Will it cause problems, and if so what kinds? Does mixing degrade browser render performance? Will mixing give you weird results on initial load with progress...

Why do BITMAPS load "upwards"?

If you have a really really large JPG and a BMP embedded on HTML and you load it into Firefox, you will notice that the JPG will load "downwards" (paint from left to right, then down) and the BMP will load "upwards" (paint from right to left, then up). Just curious. :) ...

Browser performance impact of lots of js includes

I'm working on a website for work that uses one master layout for the whole site which includes lots (over 40) js files. This website is really slow to render. How much overhead is there for the browser to parse and (for a lack of better technical term) "deal with" all these includes? I know that they are cached, so they are not bein...

Prevent an accidental Back Browse

I have a client that just got the Apple Magic Mouse. We built a recipe website and she get very upset when she is inputting all the information for the recipe, then goes for her new mouse and accidentally scrolls to the right and it will do a Back Browse and all her info is lost. So she wants to warning/pop up to prevent this from happ...

How to get resultant HTML after executing all scripts?

How to get effective HTML after executing all scripts? Actually scripts are adding and modifying control and css in the page. I would like to see html of resultant display as a static page. Is there any way to get this? Edit: Suppose if background image is added using javascript, How can i see in Html OR css? Please try to get this befo...

Capture browser events

How can i capture the browser events like 'window close', 'back button pressed' using javascript or any other client script. Is there a way to capture the events when clicked outside the document. ...

How to save large amount of data within users browser?

I have been writing a php script that saves a long string within cookie (more than 4000 chars long) and I want to save it within the browser cache. The problem is that almost all browsers have a limit. What should I do? I'm using jQuery for adding and reading data from cookie and php. ...