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Browser Rendering Difference Between strict/transitional DOCTYPEs

I came across an 'issue' some time ago that I never did get to the bottom of. Hopefully somebody can shine a light on it. What causes certain browsers (Chrome, Opera and Safari) to render a page differently when I change the DOCTYPE from strict to transitional. I know the general cause of this is quirks mode being triggered, but both the...

Are there other options of enabling an irregular shaped clickable area on a web page other than image maps?

(This is a post that I'm moving from ui stackexchange.) We have some irregular shaped areas...imagine a map of the states of the US. Imagine also that inside each state there is a rectangular region that contains graphics and text. We want to make each of the states react to mouseover/mouseout/click. If it is a straight up HTML/Javasc...

Launching a website via windows commandline

I have a program launching a website via the following command. cmd "start /max http://url.com" When launching a website via this method it uses the default browser with its default settings for opening a new window. for example, firefox and IE will open the window inside the tab of an existing window if they are set to do so. I hav...

Detect if no system activity from browser (including activity outside the browser)

I need to detect if the is no user activity in the system (e.g. what screensaver does) - all from a web browser. As far as i'm aware it is not achievable using pure JavaScript. There is a library for detective idle input within a browser though: jquery-idletimer-plugin For system idle events I'm thinking ActiveX control or SilverLight....

Png in IE browsers problem

I have a png image inside a DIV which fades in and out with js code. This works in all major browser except IE browsers. I have tested IE6, 7 and 8, and all look the same. I have even tested with a pngfix javascript code but this didn't help at all. What happens is that the png image shows up, but has rough black edges which are very ...

Fading PNG in Internet Explorer not working

I have a div which contains a PNG image, like this: <div id="pop" class="pop_komm"> <img src="Graphics/komm.png"> </div> I have a js code which is triggered on the "OnChange" event of a drop-list: <select onchange="fadeIn('pop');" name="list" etc></select> Here is the js code: function setOpacity(eID, opacityLevel) { var eStyl...

Is browser cache clearable via code?

I have a menu on my site that changes depending on whether the user is logged in or not. With browser caching, the menu "gets stuck" in either state and is confusing to users. They'll login, but the menu won't update because it's still cached in the unauthenticated state... and vice versa. How is this typically handled? Can we refresh ...

street view problem in IE8

i am working on google map,streetview. i am using below code. this is working fine in all browsers except I.E-8. how to solve this problem? anybody help me..i am giving link here which code i am using in my page ////here is my code//////// http://eisabainyo.net/weblog/2009/04/27/code-to-embed-google-map-and-street-view/comment-page-1/#c...

Should my clients expect their websites to work on iPhone without paying for a mobile version?

I make websites. Should my clients expect their websites to work on iPhone/iPad without paying for a mobile version? ...

unitPngFix prevents changing "display" of hidden "div"

I have almost solved a huge problem with png files and transparency in IE browsers on my website. The problem is that only in IE6, this wont work. I have this code called unitpngfix.js which displays transparent PNG images correctly on my website in IE browsers. I have a DIV with a png image inside it like this: <div id="pop" class="...

Internet explorer 6 Z-index problem

I have a popup DIV (js triggered) which shows an image. Very simple. The problem is, that this DIV must overlap the SELECTS which lie underneath the DIV. It works in all browsers but IE6. When the js is triggered, and the DIV is displayed, the z-index isn't right because the SELECT drop lists overlap parts of the DIV. This is only in...

Current state of browser objects?

A web-browser window contains the window object. This object contains many properties. Many of those properties are objects. Some are constructors (XMLHttpRequest, Worker, File, ...), some are regular objects (document, location, navigator, history, screen, ...), some are non-constructor functions (a.k.a. methods) (alert, setTimeout, ......

Browser object references for Chrome, Safari or Opera?

I was able to find the browser object references for Firefox and IE... Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_DOM_Reference IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533054(VS.85).aspx But, I am unable to find the object references for the other popular browsers. I assume that Safari and Chrome have a similar object struc...

How does the back button work on beautyoftheweb.com?

I've been looking for some javascript hooks for the back button in the browser. But they only seem to support back/forward between hashed url's. That is, you can only navigate from www.mysite.com#page1 and www.mysite.com#page2, if you click back, and the url becomes something without a hash, they all fail. Like this one: http://www.asual...

IIS settings problem

I have installed IIS on my windows7 but it is some problems with it. I successfully can open html files like (http)://localhost/index.html , but can't open ASP site: (http)://localhost/ProjectList.aspx HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a scrip...

Change my browsers POST method data

Is there any way to access My Own Browsers (IE8, FF3.6) Session data or POST Method data? For example when an item is sending using POST method i can change it. www.example.com/index.php?menuitem=2 change to www.example.com/index.php?menuitem=3 Is there any script or software to help? ...

How to view documents stored in the AIR application in the browser?

Hi, We have an AIR client which talks to a WAMP server. We store documents. One of the customer requirement is: they want to their website users to view the documents stored in the AIR application. It should be a read only access. The users will not have our air client installed on their machines. All they do is to check the customer's ...

How to get text from Address Bar in Firefox extension

Hi Experts I am building a Firefox Extension. I am using XUL and Javascript to do this. I need to get the text from my Firefox browser's address bar. Please don't get confused with URL where the browser has navigated, its just the text that user enters before the page redirects. Suppose user is at http://www.myexample.com or whatever p...

target form to specific browser tab

Is there a cross-browser compatible way to post a form in one tab of the browser to another (which I know is open and is of the same domain)? I tried window.name='some_name'; and target='some_name' on the form, but this does not seem to work. Am I missing something? ...

Good PDA web browser to run a warehouse application on?

We're looking into building a PDA application to do stock management, linked to our ERP system. This app would run on PDA's with barcode scanners, like this one: http://www.unitech-europe.nl/products/P_product_detail.asp?prodID=18&amp;PGID=2 It would be nice if we could build the stock management application as a web application. This ...