browser

Cross-Browser display

Hello, I am testing a website on Chrome, Firefox and IE using #foot_links1, #foot_links2, #foot_links3 { position: absolute; margin-top: 55px; margin-top: 14em; color: #02102f; font-family: Arial; } #foot_links1 { left: 335px; } #foot_links2 { left: 630px; } #foot_links3 { left: 830px; } in a CSS fi...

Do browser vendors make crash statistics publicly available?

Mozilla has http://crash-stats.mozilla.com Do other vendors have such a site? Is it possible to see crash stats for a particular url/domain? ...

How to check if a page is displaying a specific <img> tag.

What is the best way to determine if a page on a website is REALLY displaying a specific img tag like this <img src=http://domain.com/img.jpg&gt;? A simple string comparison is easy to fool using http comments <!-- -->. Even if the html tag exists it could be deleted with JavaScript. It could also be obscured by placing an image over...

Number of concurrent connections in Silverlight

Hi guys, Is there currently a way to programatically determine from within a Silverlight app the maximum number of concurrent connections that the browser will allow? I know I can do this on the server then pass it as a parameter, but I would like to know if its possible in Silverlight. This is for all versions of Silverlight including...

Is there a browser-agnostic way to detect client-side script errors with Watin?

We're using WatiN to test our web portals. During the course of an E2E test, we'll occasionally see client-side script errors on the IE status bar. I'd like to chain a handler onto the script error event and record the error for later analysis and bug filing. Problem is, I don't know that there's a global script error event or how to ...

Mimic Low Bandwidth for UI Testing?

How do you lower the mimic low bandwidth settings for testing HTML rendering on slow computers? I'm using Safari 4 on a Mac. ...

HTML/CSS: My Mini-Chat is overflowing in IE

So here's another IE cross-compatibility issue. My website, www.zerozaku.com, is compatible with Chrome and Firefox, but IE has an issue with my Mini-Chat overflowing out of the box. Could anyone help? P.S. I've only tested it on IE8, Firefox, Chrome ...

Google chrome dropdown list options ordering seems to be incorrect

I am using the following code for rendering a select box in one of my form and when i inspects i can see the following code in Firefox <select name="make"> <option value="13501">Jeep</option> <option value="26838">Joyner</option> <option value="13658">Kia</option> <option value="13898">Lada</option> </select> But in ch...

Searching for Browser Compatibility Tool.

Hay I am using IE Tester for browser compatibility, but its only for Internet explorer. Is there any Browser Compatibility Tool for all most all commonly used browsers. ...

Why is Firefox is requesting a bogus URL from an IMG src in JavaScript code?

I'm getting weird 404 errors on my site for the following URL: GET /%27%20+%20item.icon%20+%20%27 HTTP/1.1 I've got some corresponding code in my HTML file: <script type="text/javascript"> function foo(item) { return '<img src="' + item.icon + '">' : ''; } </script> Seems to be coming from FireFox 3.5/3.6 on Windows only, ...

Testing multiple concurrent browser sessions

I'm developing a card-game in Ruby on Rails, and trying to work out how best to test it. When a player joins a game, their Player object is stored in the session. Obviously, in order for the game to work, I need more than one Player in a game at once. Since sessions are the same for different tabs in one browser, I'm currently testing ...

How to avoid the loading of a specific javascript lib on IE?

Hi, I have a JQuery-Datepicker that (however) crashes my site when you are using IE6. So I want the site to prevent the loading of that particular javascript on IE6. I know about this trick: <!--[if IE 6]> <script type="text/javascript" src="datepicker.js"></script> <![endif]--> But I need it the other way around: To load the Scri...

expiry Silverlight XAP file from browser cache programmatically..

How to do I prevent a Silverlight XAP file being cached by the web browser? The reason I want to do this is during development I don't want to manually clear the browser cache, I'm looking for a programmatic approach server side. Cheers AWC ...

xaml browser application xbap

Hi, Has anyone worked on the xaml browser(xbap) application? how is it different from a typical asp .net web application and in what scenarios we can it can be used? ...

Working with persistent HTTP connections

Hello everyone! We're trying to implement a proxy proof of concept but have encountered an interesting question: since a single HTTP connection can, and indeed should, make mutliple requests, and the HTTP transactions are sent via multiple packets (due to TCP's magic) is it possible for a HTTP request to begin in the middle of a packet?...

How to open a webcontrol's link using the default browser?

Hi All, I have a webctrl in a dialog. And whenever there's a URL input, it turns to hyperlink and becomes clickable which is fine. My problem is, let's say I have Opera as my default browser, when the link is opened, the browser it uses is IE, so it opens another window. Is there any way that the link be opened using the default browse...

Javascript: What argument does the function specified in body's onload event get called with?

Similar to this question, my HTML looks like this: <body id="body" onload="loader()"> </body> I always assume, as this doc says, that onload is given no arguments. However, I named the argument, and did some deep inspection, and found that I got an object looking like this: {originalTarget : DOM, preventCapture : function, target :...

how to display new window in current browser window (html)?

Hi, I am trying to create an embedded <script> containing a function called "showForm()" that displays the contents of a file called "form.htm" within the main browswer window. This is what I need to do: Display the form.htm file in the browser window that was used to open the cover.htm file. (hint: use the "opener" keyword to refere...

Detect Type and Version of Browser from within Flash

I want to know the type and version the browser that the user is running from within my Flex 4 application. I know I can get that information by using ExternalInterface to call Javascript. I know I can get that information from the server. I'm looking for a way to get that information directly from actionscript. I mean, isn't there a g...

browser showing half progress bar even after page is fully rendered

Hi, what could be the reason if browser is showing progress bar (stuck at half) as if it is still trying to load something, even after the page is rendered. this is an intranet ASP.NET website. how can I find out the reason? the browser is IE8. actually this started after the browser is upgraded from IE6 to IE8. not sure if this issue ...