I should develop a online search application which connects to an external database in a different server. This application can be a web application one (running on a Internet browsers basically) or a normal standard window application (with its own GUI). Does one of the two approaches have more benefits of the other? If so, which one? ...
I have sensitive files to download to users, and each user is permitted to download a given file exactly once. If the download fails, I want to permit the re-download, but not otherwise. It's not sufficient to rely on logging/processing the file download request at the server - I need to know deterministically when the file is complete...
Hi, I'm developing a web app and during the tests I noticed that sometimes browsers don't load all images (like background or some decorative images) on the website. I need to hit the refresh button to to have it fully loaded. This usually happens when the website is visited for the first time. I suspect that maybe the development serve...
I have .txt files which are mostly (truly) html document (they have the header, body, html tags etc.). (I'm working in Windows environment here). I would like any browser to readily read them as html document (html document with normal .html suffix). Right now i have to rename the .txt file to be able to read it in the browser (Ex: myfil...
How can I display a language according to the user's browser's language inside this mini-framework for my multilingual website? Basically, it has to display the default language of the user if there's no cookies. Example of index.php: (rendered output) <h2><?php echo l('tagline_h2'); ?></h2> common.php: (controller of which languag...
I change languages using php arrays which makes the URL look like this: http://alexchen.zxq.net/index.php?lang=es I added $lang=$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']; in my 'controller' file in default sections, and I choose another language in the preferred languages option (Mozilla Firefox), but it didn't work. common.php: <?php sessio...
Hi, I'm developing a web application and I noticed how irritating mouse gestures can be on it, so, is there a way to disable them (Firefox and Opera particularly)? Edit: It seems there is some confusion. I'm developing a web based software that has an interface with such complex actions and tasks such as mouse selections, file drag and...
How to integrate Saxon-EE Processor in a web browser like IE? ...
Hey, I want to write a browser-chat and write an own server in c++, because you can not send text between the different instances (chat user) in php and other languages. I have apache running with port 80 and that's why I cant run the "chat http server" on port 80. Some browsers block connection to a http site if it does not use port 80....
I'm doing some tests on a website using Wordpress as a CMS. In the example below the top left of the page has an "S" graphic outside of the main content area, clipped accordingly depending on the browser width. I would like to do something similar with an "L" graphic to the right in the footer. The page width is set to 960px, and I'...
how to create a browser plug in using C#? (something like Flash Player or Unity3d) ...
I have a plug in for IE created in .NET C# now I want to port it to IE for Win mobile (5, 6, 7) how to do such thing? (I mean a plug in like Flash for example...) ( I vant to see some kind of special visual element on the page that appeare when some special tag appeares in html document... like bla bla bla ) ...
Ok, this might be a really odd problem. I am writing a web application, and I want to change the value of a certain select box: <select name="type" class="type"> <option value="word">word</option> <option value="digit">digit</option> <option value="letter">letter</option> <option value="single">single character</option> <option value="...
When viewing the following test page with the browser in the BlackBerry 9630 simulator, the text width is wider than the screen width. So, when zoomed to 100%, one has to pan. http://sites.inka.de/klee/blackberry/text.html What solutions are there to make the text wrap to screen width? ...
Hey all. I am using both the Mobile Device Browser File and a custom .browser file. In the custom .browser file, there are several ControlAdapters registered. I would like to specify in my custom .browser file to use different ControlAdapters if the detected device is mobile (provided the Mobile Device Browser File lists it as mobile)....
If you had to choose a browser (just one) to be the primarily supported browser for a company jumping into HTML5 (CSS3).. Which one would be your safest bet on the middle-long term? Chrome, FireFox, Safari, IE? I'm looking for an objective recommendation based on standards driven/compliant, developer tools, fast & correct feature impl...
Visual Studio has integrated debugging in IE, when you close IE, it stops debugging, and if you stop debugging, VS closes IE. I want it to do the same thing with firefox/chrome! (mainly this 2, if is it possible with others, it'll be appreciated!) Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance! ...
Hi, I've created a servlet for sending the exception or error details to the webmaster. I get the details like this: Throwable throwable=null; Object codeObj, messageObj, typeObj; codeObj = request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.status_code"); typeObj = request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.exception_type"); throwable = (Th...
I'm making an application that contains button's and those buttons control an embedded browser. My problem is that I want to see the button's and the web page in the same layout, but when i click on a button this will open a web page and don't show the button, can anyone help me? ...
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