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Should we use IE's CSS Dynamic properties?

Should we use IE's CSS Dynamic properties? I read IE8+ would not support these. What is the best strategy to handle this? ...

JavaScript based cryptographic signing?

I am dealing with a particularly paranoid group of users who might want their contributions to my web site to be signed (e.g. with a GPG key) before submitting. While I could show them a "snippet" to copy and paste into their GPG tool, having the browser do this would certainly be nicer. With the JS performance of recent browsers, I'm ...

Will browsers request /favicon.ico or <link> first?

I want to set a favicon to be requested from a static file server instead of the main web server for performance optimization. If I specify a <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://cdn.site.com/favicon.ico"&gt; but also have a /favicon.ico in my site root as a fallback, which will browsers prefer? Will browsers (and which?) still look ...

Move Browser window down to the position of a div when it is loaded by ajax & Jquery

Hi gurus, I have a div into which I am loading data dynamically by ajax, jquery. like $('#wp').load('http://someurl.com/getit',p,function(str){} ); Now because I am having page full of data before that div I need to move the browser window down to that div's location after it is loaded with slow motion like the similar effects in stac...

Favicon missing on select pages

This is the inverse of every favicon question you've ever heard. :-) I've got my favicon working on all pages and across all browsers, save 1 situation. The icon doesn't show up in Firefox and Google Chrome on my sign in page -- https://fwdvault.com/signin IE, Opera, and Safari pick it up just fine. The logic that builds the header is...

How do I install an older version of Flash Player?

When I try to install an older build of Adobe Flash Player to test a SWF I'm developing, the installer tells me I cannot complete installation because a newer version of Flash Player is available. I need to install the older plugin because my users have reported that it exhibits different behavior than what I'm seeing with the latest upd...

Why css hacks not patched by agent developers?

Second line of the following is not recognisable by IE6/Windows #header {margin-bottom:3em} html>body #header {margin-bottom:1em} I can understand that child selector is a feature not implemented by IE6. But IE/Mac will not recognize following. /* Hide from IE-Mac \*/ #header {margin-bottom:3em} #footer {margin-top:1.5em} /* End hid...

How viruses get through browser to pc as JavaScript do not have much privileges ?

I would like to know how browser allow viruses to pass through to our computers. Response we receive is a text response.. Only executable thing in the response is JavaScript which does not have much privileges, what makes browser favor certain files to be passed to computer? ...

Scaling images stored at S3

I'm in a situation where I need to push image storage for a number of websites out to a service that can scale indefinitely (S3, CloudFiles, etc.). Up until this point we've been able to allow our users to generate custom thumbnail sizes on the fly using Python's Imaging library with some help from sorl-thumbnail in Django. By moving ou...

Opening a file from TFS using the full TFS Path, from a web site

So I have a website running that displays full path of a TFS File on the page somewhere, I want the user to be able to click on it, which should then open up that file from TFS inside their Visual Studio. The command to do this inside Visual Studio is "File.TfsOpenFromSourceControl" (DTE command) - it's basically the user manually going...

Browser related: css print style sheets - stopping client download overhead with @media

Hi Hopefully I can explain this well and hopefully I'm thinking the right way :) My question is, If I have a print style sheet that has a couple of classes that "displays" a background image, is there a way to make the browser download the images at the point of printing or do you have to preload the images. I have mixed results doing...

Determining if a mouse position is near the edges of the browser

Hi there, In a browser, I'm trying to determine if the point representing the mouse position is in what I call an "outer area" . For example, in the image attached, the outer area is the one with a blue background. In the code and image W represents the width of the viewport of the browser, while H represents the height, and x,y for ...

Enforcing browsing through a proxy - trhough a servlet, java script or custom application

Hello, We have a proxy server that implements a set of functions. I would like to be able to enforce browsing through this proxy without setting the proxy settings in the browser. This is for demonstrating purposes, without the need to enforce the demonstrated party to change anything in the environment. There are a few ways to impleme...

resizeTo in JS gives me "Access is denied" error, how to know if browser is ready?

Hi All, I have a web app, whose UI is written in GWT, where for various reasons I need to resize the active window when the server reports things. To do this I use a JSNI function which uses resizeTo and everything works great. I did a small test and tried sending a few updates from the server and got an "Access is denied" error from the...

Access a website by a bot but only after setting a variable by a browser/human

We are working on a website of a brewery using Drupal. As minors under 18 are not allowed to view the website, any page accessed is passed through a module (legalage) and if the user clicks "continue" so as to confirm his/her age being more than 18 the site is shown to the user saving the legal age as true. The problem is when search e...

WPF in a browser and printing

Can WPF be hosted in a web browser? If so how? (I think it can as I have seen some examples of it.) While hosted in the web browser what printing support does it have? What are the drawbacks to using WPF in a browser? My company is looking for a rich web app platform. They will not choose Silverlight because it ignores any printing...

How do I suppress flicker from the webbrowser control in .Net, when it is resized?

Not all pages do this, but a good example would be youtube.com. Mostly if you are resizing the window larger, opposed to smaller. Lots of content flickers horribly in this case. I've seen some posts on the net attempt to claim sorts of double buffering will stop this, but I've yet to see any example of the proper implementation. Thank yo...

disjoin browser from http - QtWebKit the right decision?

Hi, im planning to create control-panels (touchscreeen-visualizations) for my house (KNX - bus). The control panel will be designed by HTML/CSS so it can also be accessed by a browser via the WWW. But inside the house i need a very fast and dynamic interface (eg use a js-slider and dimm a light in real-time). so i want to disjoin a brow...

light-weight renderer html with css in python

Sorry, perhaps I haven't described the problem well first time. All your answers are interesting, but most of them are almost full-featured web browsers, my task is much simpler. I'm planning to write a GUI application using one of the available on linux GUI frameworks (I haven't yet chosen one). I shall use html in my application to re...

Firewall / visited websites logger

Hi. I have a firewall implementation and I want to log all the websites visited on the machine. So when the user enters an address in the browser(any browser) or clicks a link to be able to log the visited address. The problem is that I want to log only the visited address and NOT the other resources requested by the page (ads, iframe...