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How to make a website run faster?

Hi I'm into my first 3 months of web development and I have been dabbling with some server side scripting in the form of ColdFusion, along with some Javascript, JQuery and CSS. I have read about CSS optimization and would like to know what are the other pertinent factors contributing to the better performance of a website. What all fac...

Where to find browser statistics?

I know about w3schools statistics, but it much differs from the one on my company's site. ...

Looking for a summary of which version of XSLT is supported in each major browser

Does anyone know of a resource which summarises which version of XSLT is supported in different versions of the major browsers? ...

HTML - force webbrowser to enter form text as UTF8?

I want to standardise on UTF8 on our web browser. All our databases and internet stufff is in UTF8. All our web servers SAre sending the charset=utf-8 HTTP header. However I've discovered that my changing the encoding on my Firefox (View -> Character Encoding) to something else I can enter Latin-9 character into a form and PHP just treat...

URL of my java class.

Hello, I am trying to find my java class URL in order to use it in a SWT.Browser component. My goal is to display a page located in the same folder as my .java file. If anyone knows how to do it or has a better solution to display a local page in a SWT.Browser I would be glad to know it to ;p Thanks in advance. ...

How to change the title of a browser page which a servlet streamed a PDF to?

Hi my Java based webapp has a servlet which streams PDF content back to the browser based on request parameter. e.g. user clicks on an A tag with an href of "myApp/FetchPDFServlet?id=123". Servlet mapping picks up request, streams PDF data to response as mime-type application/pdf, closes flushes buffers. However the browser title ba...

Is there a way to detect if a browser window is not currently active?

I have JavaScript that is doing activity periodically. When the user is not looking at the site (i.e., the window or tab does not have focus), it'd be nice to not run. Is there a way to do this using JavaScript? My reference point: GMail Chat plays a sound if the window you're using isn't active. ...

Offline view of dynamic content?

I want to view dynamic contents (flash games, online transaction...etc) offline. For example, I finish level 1 of this cool flash RPG game. I go offline and play the level again. Or, I make a purchase. And make the purchase again offline. Of course this won't do anything. It will be strictly for demonstration purpose. Or, I watch a ...

Why can IE 8 display compressed CSS but other browsers can't display?

I use IIS web server 7.5 on Windows 7 for hosting my project. I try to create Javascript & CSS handler that can optimize and compress both Javascript & Css file size. But I found some problem. Please look at the following request & response of Test.css file which I found at Firebug on Firefox 3.0.11 browser. Response Headers Cache-Cont...

Listener for property value changes in a javascript object

Going through javascript documentation, I found the following two functions on a javascript object looks interesting: Watch - Watches for a property to be assigned a value and runs a function when that occurs. Unwatch - Removes a watchpoint set with the watch method. Sample usage: o = {p:1}; <br/> o.watch("p",<br/> function (id,old...

Integrated File Browser in .NET Winforms?

I'm looking to integrate a file browser that given a directory uses this as a root (can't go any deeper). I've used the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser control with some Button controls to support directory navigation (which disables when you hit the root). It works great except when the window is large it provides a properties bar on ...

customizing default values for HTTP request headers in Internet Explorer

Hi, In Firefox, we can customize the default values for HTTP headers, let's say for changing the "Accept-Encoding" header in an HTTP request (type "about:config" in browser and serach for preference "network.http.accept-encoding", you can double click this value and can customize it) Can this be possible in Internet Explorer? Recently...

Book or website which lists browser compatibility for all CSS elements?

I am looking for a resource (book or website) which lists all the CSS elemenets' compatibility with the major browsers. It has to include information for IE8 & FireFox3 (Chrome not too important). The ones I have found do not mention IE8 so I need one that's up to date to include IE6, IE7 and IE8. For example, if I want to use 'border-...

How to build a 3D interactive world in a browser based application?

Hi everyone! I have a friend and he recently started to learn "Cinema 4D". He asked me if I could build him a website in which he could build a3D world, or room, using a Cinema4D file, where people could visit his work. Probably by interacting with objects. I've searched a bit in StackOverflow and I found this: http://stackoverflow.co...

Display web browser settings

Working with different web-browsers with their string of version numbers along with their myriad list of configuration is a real pain. I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a web-page that can dump the browser settings to the browser so that it can be saved and forwarded to the developer? Thanks! ...

Preventing HTTP REQUEST on javascript DOM update

I am getting re-execution of imported js files upon a hitting a form button which calls a function to insert a DOM element into page ( in simulation to exe of an ajx callback function). The DOM insertion causes a page refresh which re-requests all files from server. Nothing big on the function call: var addFashionVideo = function() { ...

Is there any way to modify the HTTP headers for IE6?

I need to be able to modify the HTTP headers for Internet Explorer for testing purposes. Basically, I want to achieve the exact same thing that the Modify Headers plugin for Firefox does. ...

Force page refresh and jump to a #section

It seems that I must be missing something completely elementary. What I’m trying to achieve looks like quite a common case, and so it makes me wonder why there is no straightforward way. The problem is that I would like to refresh the current page from JavaScript and simultaneously land on a #section. If I do simply: document.location....

JavaScript to gather visitor information/stats.

I am looking for a piece of code, or even a list of all browsers' properties JavaScript can access so I can prepare my own stats system. I'm not looking for anything that server-side parser can get (e.g. Agent, referrer, etc.). I am not interested in external solutions like Google Analytics. The reason for this is that I want to run i...

How to find which section of a website is not compatible with new browsers?

I have been tasked to fix a really old website (.net aspx vb). The website currently is not running well in IE8, Firefox, Chrome. The menus are displaying funny and some images are not correct, and in Chrome the complete header with menus and all is missing. I am not a vb guy, and I have no idea where to start looking. What will b...