Running specific version of java on firefox
In IE, I can use the classid "clsid:CAFEEFAC-0015-0000-0011-ABCDEFFEDCBA" to tell it to use java version 1.5.0_11. Is there an equivalent for Firefox and other browsers? ...
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Why can't browser send gzip request?
If webserver can send gzip response, why can't browser sent gzip request? ...
How are web site passwords encrypted by browsers?
What are some platform-specific API's that web browsers use to securely save passwords with reversible encryption on local systems? Since they must be able to reproduce the exact characters to pass up to a web site, the data can't be a one-way hash. My initial thought is there are system methods which utilize your current authenticatio...
How do I send a binary blob to a client browser?
Hi, Pardon the dumb newbie question here; web programming isn't my forte... (blush) I have an aspx page running on a web server. I have a blob (byte array) containing any kind of binary file, plus a file name. I would like to push this file to be downloaded through the browser onto the client, and opened using whatever application is...
How do I launch a specific telnet-based app from a web browser?
What I'd like to do is provide a link on an intranet web page that will launch a telnet session and pass context information to a shell script that will take the user to a specific "green screen." This "pseudolink" might help show what I'm looking for: <a href="telnet://<user>:<password>@<host>?showdetail%20123">detail for 123</a> ...
How best to get the user's browser information and settings for debugging purposes?
My problem is that I have a user that is having a problem displaying a portion of website I am creating, but I am unable to reproduce it on any of my browsers, even with the same version of the browser. What I'm looking for is probably a website that I can send the user to which will tell me what version of the browser they are running ...
Browser version Detection
I have a spec in my current project that requires us to advise the user which browsers are best to use the web application. If their current browser version they are using is not in our list of "ideal" browsers we want to display a message. What is the best way to check a specific version of the users browser. I am aware of the follow...
Measure load time for python cgi script?
I use python cgi for our intranet application. When I measure time, the script takes 4s to finish. But after that, it still takes another 11s to show the screen in the browser. The screen is build with tables (size: 10 KB, 91 KB uncompressed) and has a large css file (5 KB, 58 KB uncompressed). I used YSlow and did as much optimizatio...
"Open in visual studio" link in an ASP.net exception default page
When my ASP.NET application crashes (when it shows the default exception page), I'd like to be able to click on a line of the call stack in the browser and Visual Studio would open the code file at the given line. Do you think it's possible ? Maybe with a macro/add-in ? ...
Designing Websites In Browser (gasp!)
I'm interested in people's opinions on the pros and cons, or downright "hell no's" on designing websites in the browser, and moving away from Photoshop, Fireworks, etc. I've been designing a relaunch for my website, and trying it out in the browser, and I'm not looking back. For example (I use a 960px grid with 12 columns): <div id=...
Does browsing speed depend on the browser?
Is browsing speed depends on browser (like IE,firefox)? If it depends on browser which browser is best and works fast? And if we clear the cache in browser will it slow down the browsing speed? thanks. ...
What's actually wrong with my XML?
I have an automatically generated XML file for the game that I run. It however apparently has an error. The file is at: http://woarl.com/myXML.xml And the error is apparently at line 520, here are lines 519-521 <type>Academy</type> <typeid>23</typeid> <completion>4</completion> Any ideas as to what the error is? ...
Is there a way to disable .NET browser detection?
Hi, I failed to find a way to disable the browser detection feature added by asp.net 2.0. I want all the request to my page to be treated as if IE is requesting them. My fix was to add an App_Browsers folder to my project and in it have the following .browser file: <browsers> <browser refID="Default"> <capabilities> <capab...
Set default home page in JavaScript
How do I create a link to set the user's home page to my URL? ...
lightweight web browser ( Windows ).
Using virtual desktops, there are over 100 tabs open in my firefox. I need something lightweight that I can use for various development activities ( for example to access the project management page ). Suggestions? ...
Stop the jQuery autocomplete plugin from forgetting text when the user clicks back
I'm using the jQuery autocomplete plugin to get a list of locations, which works fine. But if the user clicks the browser's back button after submitting the page with the autocomplete textbox, the textbox is empty. If I take the autocomplete off the textbox and submit & click back it remembers the text. Is there a way to stop the auto...
Is there a "request sent - waiting for response event" when dynamically loading an iframe?
When dynamically inserting an iframe into a webpage, the JQuery load event allows me to trigger a callback function when this iframe is loaded (see also this stackoverflow article). The problem I am struggling with, is that I want to do something when the src request is sent to the server but before the response is received from that se...
What the typical viewport size on a 1024x768 screen?
I am designing a web application, and I wish to know the largest size (x and y) that I can design for. As of January 2008, about half of users are using 1024x278 screens, and probably less than 10% are using smaller screens. (Phone and palmtop users are an exception here.) So we are designing for minimum screen size of 1024x768. Howeve...
model (3ds) stats & snapshot in linux
I want to write an app that takes in a model filename via cmd line, create a list of stats (poly count, scaling, as much as possible or maybe the stats that i would like) and to load the model with its textures (with anything else) and draw it from multiple position to save the images as pngs. How would i do this? are there utils i can ...
view models in a browser
Is there a way to view models in a browse via flash, java or anything else? the models would be stored on my server with the client viewing it along with textures and anything else the model would need. I would like any browser app that works but if it works with 3ds i'll be happy ...