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Drag and drop into a browser application

We have a browser based application written in PHP in which I want to drag-n-drop files from the windows explorer or directly email attachments(this would be very cool). On dropping the files in the browser application, it should save it on a particular folder on the server. Any help on how this can be achieved would be really appreciate...

Which browsers have support for CSS :before { content: "x"; }

Which browsers have support for CSS :before { content: "x"; }? I could not find any information about this question. It seems that the CSS attribute content is quite unknown in the community although seemingly useful. ...

Website not opening in Chrome?

One of my friend's site's users getting this error. Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome http://www.labnol.org/software/webpages-not-opening-in-google-chrome/13041/ Can he do something with their hosting to ensure users of his site will not get this error. ...

Screen reader reads flash in Google's Chrome but not in Internet Explorer 8

The screen reader (JAWS) is able to read the textfield in flash on Google's Chrome but not in Internet Explorer 8. I'm using the latest version of swfobject. ...

The connection was reset

"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Hi, I am trying to load a php page on apache , but none of the static content gets loaded. Using firebug I captured the static url and tried it separately, when I received "The connection was reset" message. The site works other computers mac, windows, linux but no o...

jquery animate browser window

Hi, Is there a way to animate a browser window using jquery. Right now I'm essentially using this: $(window).animate({ left: '+=50' }, 5000}); The reason why it isn't working is probably obvious, although not for me. I eventually need to loop an animate effect so that the browser will move back and forth dynamically. Thanks. ...

Why do browser vendors make their own css properties?

Why do browser vendors make their own css properties, even they know these properties will not pass the w3c validation before approved and added by w3c? What is the purpose? Is for their own testing, or for web developers, or to demonstrate browser capabilities to the world and to the W3C organizations and to CSS development team of W3C...

Web Development: Which browsers are recommend to be used for web developers?

Hi, I need your opinion about this one. Which browsers (well, the best, at least) do you recommend for web developers to use? ...

CodeIgnitor is generating multiple sessions in the database, why?

Ive got a site that does a few ajax calls on page load, now for some reason, codeIgnitor is inserting 4 sessions (I'm assuming for each ajax call) as you load the page. I'm storing the sessions in the database. I'm pretty sure there should only be one session per browser? FF seems to only generate one, other browsers seem to create a wh...

How to publish web service produced data file accessible via browser

I need to make available to browsers data file produced by my web service method. Indeed the web service method should return url to produced file. I'm working with axis2 on tomcat. ...

Uniquely identify two instances of one browser that share Session state?

I want to ensure a user isn't editing the same form data in two different browser tabs or windows (of the same web browser instance). The intention is to stop the user from stupidly overwriting their own data as they continue through a very long form process. On the server, ongoing data input through the screens is collected into the Se...

How to implement my very own URI schema on Android

Say I want to define that an URI such as: myapp://path/to/what/i/want?d=This%20is%20a%20test must be handled by my own application, or service. Notice that the schema is "myapp" and not "http", or "ftp". That is precisely what I intend: to define my own URI schema globally for the Android OS. Is this possible? This is somewhat analo...

C# .NET Checking if browser is mobile - what is the most reliable way?

I know I can use Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice. But does anyone know how it works, and if it is reliable and up to date? Thanks! ...

Manage a `visited` links history in browsers

Hello Can I edit the browser's visited links history? How can I dump full list of visited sites, or list of pages from some site? I'm interested in the solution for the most popular browsers: IE7-8, Firefox3, Safari4, Chrome3, Opera9.50+ The best will be solution, which can be scripted in JS+CSS. But plugins or instructions for manag...

How to prevent displaying modalpopup on click of browser back button

Hi, I have an application made by using asp.net,C#.In that application there is a page having gridview displaying results.The grid view has a template column containing hyperlink. On click of the hyperlink there is modal popup opened using code behind. The modal popup is closed successfully by closing it.Now I redirect to some other pag...

Is it possible to capture audio stream in browser via flash/js/silverlight ?

Hi, Im working on a project where we need to capture a 5 sec clip of whatever is being played through the users line-out (audio). Is it possible to do this reliably through a browser (using flash/silvelight/js..) ? ...

ASP.Net: Expiring a page when navigating back

Basically all pages on this site I am building cannot be accessed when the user clicks on "Back" (or with key control) in the browser, and the page should expire if one is trying to navigate back in history. I put into Global.asax::Application_BeginRequest Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache) Response.Cache....

safari and chrome javascript console multiline

Firebug has a multiline feature in their console tool. Is there a way to get this functionality with the debugger tool in Safari/Chrome? ...

Vertical scrolling in silverlight

I have a silverlight application that is set to use 100% browser height. As I dynamically add controls to a canvas (which can be dragged around), I would like the expand the canvas vertically. Ideally show the browser scrollbar so the user can move up or down, if that can't be done, use the scrollbar control. I would also need to han...

How to detect default printer properties from browser?

Regardless of if this is a good idea or not, is it possible to detect printer attributes from the browser? The idea is that you want to print out a brochure that's selling something. Depending on different things such as if the printer is black&white/colour, high/low resolution, laser/inkjet, printing to a file, etc, you want to print o...