How do I open PowerPoint files in the browser?
I want to open and show PowerPoint files in web browsers? How do I do that? ...
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Limit client to visit a website with 1 tab and 1 browser?
I would like to do something like play.clubpenguin.com. What it does is that, when you visit the site, maybe using firefox or IE, if you opened a new tab or use other browser, when you visit that site again, it will show something like: "Please close the other browser that opened this page" or something like that. How to do this? (It...
Close pop up window after binary file is sent to browser
Hi, Is there a way to close a pop up window after the page writes binary data (PDF) to the browswer? Here are the details: Whenever my web appilcation needs to print, it will pass some parameters over to a pop up window, which will display the print options. When the user clicks on the Print button, it will set the src of a iframe t...
javascript is enabled in ALL webbrowsers by default?
isnt javascript enabled in all webbrowsers by default? if yes, does this mean that i can use ajax/javascript in my webpages without bearing in mind that maybe some browsers wont be able to use my website? i dont want to create another version of the page to display non javascript content. what do you think? EDIT: it doesnt seem that ...
incompatibility issue: use which web browser for developement?
i have a mac. i wonder which browser (safari or firefox) i should use to develop my prototype, firefox or safari? because i have noticed they will give different effects. some things working in safari dont work in firefox and vice versa. could someone also give me some advices of how to deal with incompatibility problems. ...
Float align display:inline problem
<div style="display:inline;"> <textarea rows="10" cols="50"></textarea><br /> <div style="float:right;">remaining characters: 300</div> It is not working in either firefox or IE. The text remaining characters is not within the "inline" bounds instead goes 100% out of the containing div. what is the best way of accomplish something ...
No access to developer tools in Opera without a conection to Internet.
I have noticed that when being in offline mode (the computer is not connected to the Internet), Developer Tools (AKA Dragonfly) in Opera are not accessible. When choosing them from the menu, Opera thinks for a while then displays a connection error. Is there any way to use Developer Tools without being connected to Internet? ...
is there any way to automatically run a test suite from within Selenium IDE upon opening firefox?
I would like to create a script or a batch file on windows that automatically opens Selenium IDE (plugin) and opens and runs a test file. ...
How does the browser know a web page has changed?
This is a dangerously easy thing I feel I should know more about - but I don't, and can't find much around. The question is: How exactly does a browser know a web page has changed? Intuitively I would say that F5 refreshes the cache for a given page, and that cache is used for history navigation only and has an expiration date - which ...
Embedding PDF documents into websites
I need to embed some PDF documents into a website. The last time I did this, I used a jQuery lightbox to popup an iFrame with the PDF document as the URL. The client's PDF viewer would then take care of the rest. Apparently though, that was a bit buggy on some other peoples browsers. I guess it was due to the large PDF file sizes and th...
How to open a webpage within a BlackBerry application?
I need to open a webpage from a BlackBerry application. I don't want to use a hyperlink so that users have to navigate to the blackberry browser application. So, I basically need a full screen where the content of that particular page can be loaded just like a browser. Is weblinks the answer to what I need or do I need to just invoke a b...
CSS Hacks, Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome
I searched around and allegedly, body:nth-of-type(1) is used in CSS to target only Safari and Google Chrome. Lo and behold, Mozilla reads it properly too. I searched ten times more but came up with nothing, so here I am. Is there a Google Chrome-only CSS hack? ...
Recently my site has been slow and Ive been getting timeout messages in browser - whats wrong?
How can I diagnose timeout problems and slow page loading with my site, I have ySlow plugin in firefox and it shows that grade A/B for most pages so i would expect pages to load quickly. Should I contact my hosting company? The company I bought my domain name from? There is not much load on the server at present and I am using a v. fast ...
soap and web browser
greetings, i have a simple question. I have some page that i use for SAML Authority certificate.: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/trust/RST/Issue the coleague of mine asked me why is this "dead link". Well, I told him that it is a soap protocol and it is not a good idea to communicate with the front end user using web browser. B...
How to make child-navigation not affect parent browser history ?
I have a main page which contains a simple iframe. Iframe source = a php file. The PHP have a link the user can click, but whenever clicked, the browser history increases. I want the iframe to be independent, without affecting history. Possible? I am not familiar with ajax btw. PS: Its only 1 link in the iframe which can be clicked. T...
How to getback the old form data on Browser Refresh.
Hi All, I am implementing one search solution. Technology i am using is .net Web service, html and java-script (jquery library). * I will state the issue i am facing. There are html elements for 'query string' typing and few 'filtering' options. In Form Submit I am reading those fields, generating the request object and then calling m...
How can I test a comet ajax site on a single host and work around browser simultaneous connection limit?
I am using the comet long-polling technique with apache, php, jquery. I've got a basic comet update running and it works great. I'm now attempting to build a more complex comet script, and I want a better way to debug. My comet scripts use $.ajax() with a long timeout, and the server side just sleeps until it either runs up to the time...
Which tools do you use to debug HTML/JS in your browser?
I'd like to collect the best debugging aids for all browsers out there. So that would probably be Firebug for Firefox but what do you use for IE? Safari? Opera? Opera Mini? What else is out there? Are there tools that work well for IE 6? IE 5? ...
Cookie slows down my website on first start, always like this?
As soon as I implemented only one cookie into my website, the entire website became very slow on first start. I guess it's because it is fetching the cookie information. But is this always the case? There is no heavy code behind fetching the cookie, just plain simple php like this: $arr = $_COOKIE['name']; // array maximum of 10 val...
Detecting browsers installed so Process.Start("chrome") won't error
I'm trying to let the user choose the browser my application uses to launch urls. Currently it uses the default browser, but some people want to specify a different browser. I'd like to show only installed browsers in the list, and I'm launching them like this: Process.Start("chrome", url); The problem is, if Chrome isn't installed (a...