browser

How can I get the current location URL of Mozilla browser using C#?

I am facing a problem while developing my Windows application for getting current URL of running Mozilla browser. Is it possible to get active URL of Mozilla browser? ...

Stop SWT Browser Printing Contents?

Does anyone know of a way to stop an SWT Browser widget from printing its contents? In my app, this widget will display confidential files. I cannot block everything, but want to make it as difficult as possible to get information out. I easily hide the context menu when a user right-clicks, so Print cannot be gotten to in that fashio...

Is there much overhead with HTTP uploads?

I have files often uploaded via browser and maybe considering using another method to make uploads faster. When a file is uploaded via browser, is there much overhead due to encoding? Do you know how much? Thanks! ...

Enumerate browser tabs from external application

Hi everyone. A bit of an odd (challenging?) question. Is it possible to programmatically access the tabs of an open browser from a external application? I realize that's a vague question, but hear me out: What I'm trying to create is a "Gmail Chat Notifier" application that flashes a notification icon in the Windows system tray when an ...

Can I edit an excel file from a browser using POI?

Can I edit an excel file from a browser using POI? Something like google docs maybe? But in java? I've used POI for display only, way way back, but I dont remember it being editable from the browser. Any suggestions of the best approach to this? The excel will display a list/table with data, and each row will either be reported as havin...

Flash player notified on browser close or change page (as3)

I have to detect in my flash if the user closes his browser or goes to another page and the flash is not accessible anymore. How do i achieve that ? ...

How to deal with browser cache?

What are your tricks on getting the caching part of web application just right? Make the expiry date too long and we'll have a lot of stale caches, too short and we risk the servers overloaded with unnecessary requests. How to make sure that all changes will refresh all cache? How to embed SVN revision into code/url? Does having mult...

How to keep some input text removed by jquery when going back with browser?

Hi! I have some bug with the following page: http://jsbin.com/agedu/ Source code with some comments: http://jsbin.com/agedu/edit The problem is that when typing something and doing the query to display search results, if I go back to the search page in my browser (Firefox 3.5 but it's the same thing with IE8) there isn't my search term...

Why does it take me so long to launch an ASP.NET web site?

I am running VS 2008 SP1 on a pretty high-powered Win XP machine. My startup project is a web project that was written by another developer (I'm not that well versed in web development). Start Options = launch specific page, Server = default Web server, debuggers = ASP.NET. When I push F5, my browser opens a new tab in Firefox (my def...

Selenium RC - disabling browser cookie

Is it possible to disable a browser cookie using selenium, RC specifically? If so, what is the api call or sequence of calls to make this happen. There is a feature being tested where theres a need to verify the behavior when cookies are enabled or disabled. Thanks ...

How to help users get a better browsing experience?

As I found out today, it looks like YouTube is going to stop supporting IE6 pretty soon. This begs the question, should we, as applications builders, be the ones that are helping our users to get a better Internet experience? Should we, like Google, provide messages to users with outdated browsers? Should we be explaining to them wh...

Portable Way To Create Desktop Shortcuts for Your Web Site?

I'd like to be able to give our users an option to create a desktop shortcut to our web site. I've done some research and found a number of articles using ActiveX to access the Shell API for Windows to perform this activity, but I'm curious as to whether there is a way to do it that is built into the browser that I might be missing tha...

Some browsers send POST followed by GET requests

My Servlet app. gets called twice every time the user submits a form: The first time with a POST request, and immediately after, with a GET request (both requests with the same URI). This problem appears to be independent of the app server (I've tried with tomcat-6.0 and with resin.2.1). The problem seems to be browser related: The pro...

video plugin in chat

hi i m developing a social networking application using php and i want to make a chat application which supports video chat features like in Gmail ( google provides browser plugin for that ) thanks ...

Please suggest an open source web browser for an ARM Linux platform

Hello everyone, I'm tasked with choosing an open source web browser to run on a fairly low-end embedded Linux system, that is ARM based. I'd really appreciate some advice. I've been doing some research and there appear to be a few choices: Firefox/Mozilla - too huge to run on limited resources Konqueror/Embedded - the development appe...

Problem with JDICplus embedding IE in Java

I am building a Java Swing application that needs to support both an embedded browser and ActiveX. The easy way to do this seemed to be to use JDICplus, which just embeds IE in your application. That would have covered both requirements. I also need to overlay some buttons on top of this browser view so the user can navigate between vie...

How can I create an HTML table with a fixed header that works in mobile phones like IE for windows mobile?

How do I create an HTML table with fixed header that works in mobile phones like IE for Windows Mobile? I have found this demo. It is great, however, it does not work in IE in Windows Mobile. ...

What's the replacement for the .value variable in javascript?

I'm writing a page where I need to get the value attribute for the selected option within a select tag. The way I usually do it like this: onchange="changeCurrentWebsite(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value) However every time I use ".value" in Javascript my IDE(Intellij) complains that that symbol is deprecated... Does anybody know ...

Hosting browser in WPF

Is it possible to host any other web browser beside IE in WPF desktop application? Edit: If yes, how? ...

Browser detection Plugin?

Hi I have a website that I made and I am planning to redo it. The current version of the site used a jquery callout plugin that did not fully work in IE6. This got me thinking about browser detection. At first I was just going to put the supported browsers on the home page but then today on Digg I saw some post about some jquery plugin...