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Delete cookie from browser?

Is there any way of instructing a web browser to completely delete one's cookie set with PHP? I do not want to expiry it or wait for the browser to be closed. With delete I mean to actually not have it listed inside the cookie's list anymore. ...

HTML link that forces refresh?

Is there a way to construct a link to a URL that forces the browser to ignore any cache it might have for that URL? We have some websites that have recently changed after literally years of static content. Users click shortcuts, favorites, or type URL's to these sites and get old, cached content. I would like to have a page with a link ...

How to calculate/predict width after a browsers zoom?

Specifically, how do I predict/calculate the effect any of the browsers' zoom will have, for example, on width:950px? Are there any tools I can use to determine the new widths? edit: If I have a 950px div that is visually rendered 875px in, say, chrome, I could say chrome reduces fixed widths by approx. 92.1% after one crtl-. (950*.921...

How can I check my ajax application and site on multiple browsers?

I am running windows 7 which won't even allow me to use the latest IE version for testing. I currently use google crome and firefox. Is there a program or easy way to test a site with multiple browsers, and not just the way they might look but everything like javascript and ajax just as if I were using that particular browser? ...

Executes Fine In Jail Shell but not in Browser

My python script executes fine in Jail shell, putting out html which I can pipe to an html file. When I look at the file, it's exactly what I want. However when I try to run the file from a browser I get a 500 error. According to the instructions at http://imgseekweb.sourceforge.net/install.html the cgi-bin should be in suEXEC mode. M...

Catch F11 pressed when the flash app is not in focus

hi i have a website which has a video playing. what i want is when my browser going into a full screen mode i want to only show my video. when i press F11 by click on the address bar / click on the browser window and press F11 my browser goes into the full screenmode.But i dont understand that F11 is played. Is there a event from my ...

Support for newer version of browser

How would you analyze your web application to asses the amount and kind of changes you will have to do to be able to support a new browser or a newer version of the same browser. I have IE7 in mind, but am looking for general advice. Added clarification: I already have an existing application. Not designing a new application, We need ...

Viewing large text file in a browser

Hi, I need to write a text file viewer (not the directory tree, but the actual file contents) for use in a browser. It will be used to view large files. I want to give the user the ability to actually ummm, browse the file, ie prev page & next page buttons, while each page will show only a portion of the file. Two question: Is there a...

How to force a web browser to cache Images

I am writing a small application which serves images from the local computer, so they can be accessed as http://localhost:12345/something/something (which returns a jpeg). How can I force the browser to cache this, so only a single request would be sent to the server. Would this header be sufficient HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: publ...

Easiest way to recommend users to upgrade their browser?

There have been a lot of buzz around IE6NoMore campaign. What's the easiest way to recommend users to upgrade their browser? ...

Xcode Developer Documentation Link Hover Jumps To Top

I don't know how I got into this state, but the Xcode documentation window has been exhibiting this strange behavior of "jumping to top" whenever I hover over a link in one of the doc files. For example, I'll be scrolling down to, say, the methods of a Class Reference, and as soon as I hover over one of them, the doc window jumps right ...

Alerts when navigating away from a web page

When I try to close my Google docs tab with unsaved changes, this is what I get in my browser (FF 3.5). Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? You have unsaved changes in this document. Click Cancel now, then 'Save' to save them. Click OK now to discard them. Press OK to continue, or Cancel to sta...

Images show and then disappear in Safari

So this is really weird. If you go to http://floridahome.palmbeachpost.com/ in Safari and do a search for listings, you'll see our image not found come up on results where the images really should come up. If you don't see what I'm talking about the on the first page, click through a couple pages. If you do the same search in Firefox...

Auto browser refresh during web development

It is well and good that the server restarts automatically for each change in the code. How would you have even the browser refresh automatically, as per configuration (Turn on and off, the least). How to do it on Windows, and on Linux, for all different development frameworks. What existing packages allow you to do it, and if you are ...

How do I refresh the browser every X seconds with javascript?

I use a Firefox plugin that can refresh the browser window every X seconds. As a frontend developer this is really useful as I can get instant feedback on CSS / XHTML changes the moment I save them in my editor. I've noticed, however, that this often stops working. I'm guessing this may be due to javascript/jQuery that I've added to the...

JavaFX Applet web-page refresh and close notifications?

Hi, How do I detect when user closes(navigates away) or refreshes web page with JavaFX applet in it. I want to do some clean up in my code on those events. Java Applet had some callback methods to do that, but how would I do it in JavaFX running in browser? Thanks, ...

Reasons why gzipped content might not be grokked by the browser

I'm attempting to serve static resources (css and javascript) as cached gzipped files for performance reasons. The pages look gzipped when rendered, the Content-Encoding is correctly set to gzip according to LiveHTTPHeaders, and most importantly, the gzipped content is passing the GIDZipTest page (http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-te...

How to get Body element height dynamically using JQuery

I need to get the body element height and width, when i resize the browser windows Please help me to solve this problem using JQuery ...

Programmatic web browser Java library

Does anyone know of any Java library for programmatic web browsing? Prowser doesn't cut it because there's no "push the button" method and Watij is limited to Internet Explorer Windows only. ...

How can I invalidate a page in the browser cache from the client side?

I need the client (using javascript) to invalidate a page it has and essentially fetch a new version? I thought I could do it all with headers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1295397/invalidating-cached-content-if-modified-headers If there NO way to have the browser refresh its current cached version, with out making a new request ...