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What is the best, most reliable web resource for browser market share?

What is the best, most reliable web resource for browser market share? This is required to assess which browsers should be favored while building CSS and, more importantly, browser-exceptions. For example, should I be buiding for FF3 or FF2, given that there slight rendering differences. ...

Prevent browsers from inserting name and password

Duplicate of Disable browser save password functionality Is there a way to tell the browser not to insert pre-Saved credential data into forms on websites? For example I might have an application where I have to login first. I saved the credentials for this login. When I now want to create a new user account in the control panel, the ...

How to get browser type and version from within an applet?

Is is possible to query the current browser from within an applet? I would like to know if the current browser is IE6 or IE7. ...

Securly download file inside browser with correct filename

I am doing some work on a web site that has a secure area which is available to users only after they have logged in. In this area there is a page with links to pdf documents which can be downloaded. The physical documents are outside of the web site's root directory. The links to the pdf documents look something like this: index.php?pa...

HttpPostedFile.FileName - Different from IE

When I upload a file to a site using the ASP:File control the FileName property is different in IE and Firefox. In Firefox, it just provides the name of the file, but IE provides the full path to the file. I have worked around this by adding the code: Dim FileName As String = file.FileName If FileName.LastIndexOf("\") > 0 Then Fil...

What requests do browsers' "F5" and "Ctrl + F5" refreshes generate?

Is there a standard for what actions F5 and Ctrl+F5 trigger in web browsers? I once did experiment in IE6 and Firefox 2.x. The "F5" refresh would trigger a HTTP request sent to the server with an "If-Modified-Since" header, while "Ctrl+F5" would not have such a header. In my understanding, F5 will try to utilize cached content as much a...

Methods to check the look of a web page on different browsers

I would like to be able to see how a web page looks on different browsers before releasing it. I have several on my machine, but I cannot check different versions of IE, and other browsers, and I cannot check other OSs. I know of http://browsershots.org/ but this takes ~30 minutes at times, thus it can be problematic for troubleshooting....

Javascript mechanism to autoscroll to the bottom of a growing page?

Hopefully, this will be an easy answer for someone with Javascript time behind them... I have a log file that is being watched by a script that feeds new lines in the log out to any connected browsers. A couple people have commented that what they want to see is more of a 'tail -f' behavior - the latest lines will always be at the bott...

Cross-browser techniques for disabling password caching

Saving and auto-filing of username/password is a feature of most modern browsers. And the user can generally choose to disable this feature on a per domain basis. But is there a standard way for the site itself to prevent password caching? The emphasis here is cross-browser, so I would employ multiple parallel mechanisms if necessary. ...

JQuery Return Link Not supported By IE 7

Dear all, I am using JQuery and Aajax, My Ajax.php file has returns the following field into Main File. While I am Click In Mozilla And Chrome , It Working Fine Gives alert, But when I use IE 7 Version 7.0.5730.13 ,It Didnt Supported , Does i Need to do anything on browser side or i have to modify Will u please Help Me in this contex...

Tab key behavior in browser edit control

Web browsers are good as thin clients for web applications. But if the user has to enter some code (where tabs and formatting are important) in an edit box, inside a web browser, he navigates through the webpage controls every time he hits the "tab" key, instead of printing the "tab" character. Are there any free web controls or is the...

What do you use to debug JavaScript besides Firebug?

What are your favorite JavaScript debugging tools besides Firebug? Thanks, Eric Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/103155/javascript-debugger ...

free or cheap open source browser-based Flash (flv) video players

Does any know of any free or cheap OSS browser based Flash video player? It's going to be embedded on ASP.NET 3.5, a webcontrol would be handy, but not required. I've been looking around and there are a lot of options. My client wants to host a video on their web site like in a player like YouTube. Here are some of the ones I've foun...

Is Web Browser "Discrimination" Okay?

Is it acceptable to add "special," but unnecessary, content based on a user's web browser? For example, is it okay to display this: at the top of my webpage for all IE users? ...

Why are cookie paths case sensitive?

I've realised for the first time a couple of weeks ago that when setting an http cookie, while the domain name is not case sensitive, the path is. So a while a cookie stored for http://SomeWebSite.com can be read using http://somewebsite.com a cookie stored for http://somewebsite.com/SomePath cannot be read using http://somewebs...

Download PDF through browser authentication with javascript

I understand that I can do browser authentication with Javascript, and then grab, say, an XML file with that javascript. My use case is a bit different though: There's a link on a webpage to a PDF on a different server. That server does browser authentication. The username and password are NOT secrets, in fact right now, we publish the l...

How to find out all files that my browser loads while accessing a webpage?

I can use Firebug and it will show lots of info about files that are loaded and even http return codes but it doesn't seem to show all of them. For example i visit a page that loads a flash file. In firebug it will show that the file is loaded, but if that swf itself loads other swf's and accesses other resources those will not be showed...

What does the user need to run a WPF browser application?

I've been developing on WinForms and WebForms since the last 4 years. I didn't consider migration to WPF till now, but I am considering it now. Please tell me what's required at the client end to properly run WPF applications in the browser. What are the platforms it's compatible with? Does the user need to install any special plugin? ...

Write to local disk from web page

I'm working on a Silverlight control that will allow multi-file downloading. At the moment I'm trying to get my mind around the permission model of the browser. Let's say, on a web page, a user enters a local folder (c:\temp) in a text box. The user then clicks a button. Is it possible in JavaScript or Silverlight, to write a collectio...

What aspects of a Web Browser should be configurable via plugins?

I'm looking at this from the perspective of the plugin developer not the user of the browser, so I'm interested in what developers think is the ideal interface for plugins to a browser. For example: Plugins can reorder, create and destroy Tabs, Plugins can draw behind and in front of Browser pages etc. I'm particularly concerned about...