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How to tell browser do not send COOKIE for certain folders, files or request?

I'm running PHP5 and Apache with mod_rewrite enabled. As we know on every page load browser sends cookie data to requested files. This data could be useful for PHP files, however for images or css files it has no value and simply make communication between browser and server slower. Is there any ways to tell browser or server to stop d...

Migrate an application from IE to cross-browser

We are in the process of migrating an IE application to Firefox. Do you recommend a tool that can automate to a certain extent this process. Perhaps this tool could help us identify code that is browser specific. Do you see this as possible? ...

How to inform users that his browser is not supported

Hello, I'm working at a small company and we are developing a web application. With the very few resources we have available, we can't afford to assemble the development team we would like to (we are only two people). The web app is becoming very complex over time and it is very difficult to keep progress with IEx, Firefox, Safari, and ...

Error - Web Page Has Expired in PHP?

I have six pages for a registration form in my PHP project. In between any of the page if I press the back button from the explorer bar I get the error: "Webpage has Expired". I am using $_POST to submit the data. I can't understand why this occurs? ...

Where can I find browser specification?

Different browsers implement different things in different ways. For example, see the event model differences here Where can I find the complete official documentation of the brower's implementation? ...

Is there another way in java 1.1 to handle cookies in Applets other than JSObject

Hi experts,,, wish you all a happy and exciting year of 2010. Is there another way in java 1.1 to handle cookies in Applets other than using JSObject... ...

Giving a Flex application the focus in browser to capture keystrokes

I've written a little video game in Flex that runs in a browser. The player moves by pushing the arrow buttons on the keyboard, so I need to capture those keystrokes. In fact, the game action starts when the player presses one of those keys. In order to capture the keystrokes, the Flash/Flex application, not just the browser, needs to...

Why is IE letting a URL link break its container div?

Shows fine in FF, (continues the URL down to the next line, nice and clean). But IE lets it break passed the right border of the div. The NEWS section of this page: http://www.albuquerquecupcakecreations.com/index.php Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks! ...

Experimental CSS and old fashioned browsers

Hello, Is it a good idea to use experimental CSS-properties like border-radius, text-shadow, box-shadow and gradient in a layout today? And what about values like rgba()? When I look at web galleries, these CSS-properties are frequently used and according to articles like on 24ways.org it is not a problem to use these properties. Wha...

How to Slow down the browser

I am trying to test my application performance in different browsers (specially ie6). Also I have ie8, ff and Chrome installed. I am using tool like ietester to see how my app looks in ie6. I am trying to find a way, as how my application will behave if the browser is relatively slow (keeping the bandwidth/network speed same.). Is ther...

"Remote login" in a browser

Suppose I have a machine M and a webserver S. From M, I would like to be able to visit a page on S which will log me into some site X (e.g., Gmail). However, I want this to happen without M ever handling any password details. Also, I don't want to use a proxy, but rather have the end result be as if M were actually visiting the site X...

Alternative to cookies

Hi I build portable HTML/Javscript prototypes, which are intended to be Zipped up and shared via email/sharepoint. The key word here is 'portable' - no server is required to run these prorotypes - just a javascript enabled browser. And there is no database. Some of the prototypes require that I persist data (just to show off potential...

In-browser default selected text color - What is it?

Supposing no CSS, javascript or other HTML trickery, how does the browser determine the color of the text and background for selected text? For example, standard white background (#FFFFFF, or RGB=255,255,255) with black text (#000000 RGB=0,0,0) when selected with invert the colors (i.e. black background, white text.) How are other color...

Block all content on a web page for people using an Adblock-type browser add-on/extension?

I wish to block ALL my content from any users using an ad-blocking browser extension (ie. Adblock Plus for Firefox, Adthwart for Chrome). How can I acheive this? Is there a server-side solution? Client-side? Edit 1 This question regards the detection of ad-blocking browser extensions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185067/detec...

CNAME for Omntiure

What are some reasons why sites like LLNW create a CNAME record for Omniture requests (e.g. metrics.limelightnetworks.com instead of limelightnetworks.122.2o7.net)? I've found a post that seems to suggest that it's intended to circumvent 3rd-party-cookie settings. Are there any other pros/cons to this approach? From a performance persp...

Browser based WebDAV client?

Is there any good browser based WebDAV client? If not, is it possible to make one? ...

Optimal location for javascript includes...

I've read that it is better to place your <script> tags at the end of the document. The argument for doing this appears to be that the browser will stall rendering the page below a script tag until it has loaded and and executed the script. If your script tag is at the top of the page, rendering is stalled for a while, which is bad. How...

How to delete cookies?

I want to delete cookies programmatically. More specifically, I am using HtmlUnit with Java to automate browser operations. After performing some operations I want to clear cookies so that my subsequent operations make sense. How can I clear cookies through HtmlUnit or through Java or through any other way automatically. ...

how to click on a button through java?

I want to access forms on HTMl pages throught Java Programming Language without involving real browser in between. At present I am doing it through HTML UNIT but it takes a bit more time to load a page. When it comes to accessing millions of page, then this extra bit time matters most. Is there any other methods for doing this? ...

In Javascript, perferably JQuery, how do I add something to the URL when the user clicks "back" button in the browser?

When the browser clicks "back" button, I want to append "&page=3" to the URL. How do I bind it, and then do this? Edit: I want this very simple. BIND the event{ window.location(that-url + "&page=3") } Can it be done that simply? ...