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What is the HTTP_PROFILE browser header and how is it used?

I've just come across the HTTP_PROFILE header that seems to be used by mobile browsers to point to an .xml document describing the device's capabilities. Doing a Google search doesn't turn up any definitive resources on what this is and how it should be used, can anyone point me to something along the lines of a spec/W3C standard? ...

Icons for websites with an <img> tag

What is the best way to link to the icons of websites? Meaning, given a hostname, what src should I put in an <img> tag to link to the 16x16 icon? I was just doing http://&lt;hostname&gt;/favicon.ico. It seems some .ico files aren't liked by different browsers. Chrome seems to like them all, but Safari, FF and IE all have problems with ...

What happens when a user presses stop in their web browser?

If a page is called that requires a lot of processing and the user clicks stop before the end, does the browser simply stop the request at the client side? Or is a 'stop' message sent to the server, i.e. is the processing cancelled? ...

Dynamic web user control problem when browser's back button is clicked.

Hi all, I have an .aspx page in which I dynamically add web controls to a panel. The problem is when I hit the browser's back buton, it's displayed a version of the page that no longer exists on the server-side, because the controls are dynamically added. Let's say my aspx dynamically adds Control1. From there, I click a button that loa...

How to delete Firefox Cookies and cache while program runs on Selenium Grid

I am running Selenium Grid and most of my Scripts fails due to unable to delete FF cookies. Each testcase needs to delete browser cookies .If any one aware of this please let me know. ...

Font size render in iphone

Hi everybody, i'm testing my website and is working fine on every browser, except for the iphone browser (i think it's safari mobile?) that renders a piece of text with a bigger font that the rest. I've checked the CSS by hands and using firebug on the page and i can confirm i've put the same size to all of them. How do i fix this? You ...

Browser JSON Plugins

Im looking for a Safari/Webkit plugin similar to Firefox's JSONView, or the Pretty JSON Chrome extension. Anyone know of anything like this? JSONView - http://benhollis.net/blog/2009/02/24/jsonview-view-json-documents-in-firefox/ Pretty JSON - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ddngkjbldiejbheifcmnfmmfiniimbbg ...

Any way to cache WAV files in IE?

I'm seeing an issue with our web application. We have a few wave files which we can play (like ding.wav) and we have attempted to pre-load wave files but using Fiddler we're seeing that the WAV files are never cached like (js and css and image files). We always see an HTTP 200 instead of an HTTP 304. Any ideas on how to tell IE that it...

Uploadify (flash file upload) & Integrated Windows Authentication

Hi guys I'm running into an issue with Uploadify and I hope someone can help. I have put Uploadify into my app and all works fine in dev (using the VS web server). All worked fine and checked until I deployed the app into my test environment which uses Integrated Windows Authentication. When I actually go to upload the file, the brows...

Programmatically Detecting Browser Cookies Enable/Disabled without Redirect or Javascript?

How is http://supportdetails.com detecting if cookies are enabled or disabled without a server side redirect? Using Firefox and the Developer plug I've disabled Javascript and toggled Cookies on and off. It correctly detects without, as far as I can tell, a server side redirect. How are they doing this? ...

How is this plugin designed to crash IE6, crashing IE6?

Chad Smith came out with a jQuery plugin designed to crash the IE6 browser. ;jQuery.crash=function(x){for(x in document.open);}; What is this doing exactly to cause the problem? ...

Is anyone else experiencing weird debug + crash behavior with Silverlight?

I have noticed that after awhile of debug/tweakcode/debug etc that eventually Silverlight starts to crash all of my browsers (i.e. doesn't matter which i fire, they all just crash). If i then go to a site that has Silverlight, it works fine? so it has something to do with debugger + Silverlight not getting along? I then reboot and the p...

Programmatically enable Javascript in Blackberry browser (not in Browser Field)

Is there a way to programmatically enable Javascript in Blackberry Browser? In my application I have to open an URL in Blackberry browser but for that I need to first enable Javascript. I do not wish to use Browser Field as the content displayed in it doesn't look good. Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated. ...

How to edit javascript in browser?

Hi I was looking for a way to edit javascript in browser such as firefox on the fly and execute it. Firebug allows us to edit html and css on the fly but javascript is a pain.... i have to go back to the source and modify that.. Is there a way to do it? ...

Can VS launch FireFox in a new window when hitting F5?

I am using FireFox as my default browser. I am using the setting "Open new windows in a new tab instead", since this is what I prefer when just browsing the web. However, this means that when I hit F5 in VS to start debugging, the web app is opened in a new tab in the active FireFox instance, alongside any other tabs I have opened alread...

Browser Dom Selection in C# Windows Forms App

I'd like to build a windows forms app to allow users to make selections within the Browser object. I'd like to capture their selection (by index or DOM element - no too picky at this point) and use this information to query content from the page. How can I capture the DOM selection from my C# app code? ...

WPF Frames - open links in external browser

Hi, I have a Frame (used to display a local html file) in a WPF window. I would like that when the user clicks on a link or such, this is opened in an external browser window ( user's default web browser). Any ideas how to go about this please? ...

TinyMce + Ajax File Manager + Codeigniter = Little Problem

OK, I'm using the following: TinyMCE, CodeIgniter, and the TinyMCE Ajax File Manager. I can upload correctly and it looks pretty good. However, when I view the HTML (from TinyMCE), this is what I get. <img src="../../../data/page/verde_enfemera.jpg" alt="" /> What I need to be getting is the following: <img src="http://localhost/htt...

Is there a nice javascript dialog box for JQuery that works with mobile?

Mobile browsers. Jquery dialog alert box. I don't want to use alert() because it looks ugly in web browsers. I'm building a website for BOTH mobile and web, so I need a dialog box that can work on both. ...

Looking for a jquery plugin to resize/expand browser if too small?

Is there a jquery way or plugin to detect the visitor's browser window size when they first come to the page and auto stretch the browser for them if it's too small? It's a pretty common thing that I've seen done a few times, so I'm guessing someone here will know about it. ...