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Browser not loading Php pages

Im using a linux machine, and I followed the instructions seen on http://jm2.php.net/manual/en/install.php to setup php, apache and my sql. I did exactly what it said and nothing more, but when I try to open a .php file with firefox or chrome, it downloads...? Im following a tutorial on learning php seen here: http://devzone.zend.com/n...

is it ok to forget about people without javascript turn on?

I am currently building a new style ecommerce shopping cart to test various scenarios and get the best conversion rates. Alot of this will be Javascript based. So I am trying to establish whether we are now in a time where we can simply say we happy to drop support for people with javascript turned off? Thanks for your help help and a...

Webbrowser Control accessing new window's document

I am hosting the WebBrowser control in C# winforms application. After clicking on a button on main page the application opens a new window and rest all the actions happens in new window. From the C# host application how can I access the Document of new browser window? The we.bbrowser's Document property still gives me the original doc...

Python Desktop Application with the Browser as an interface?

I want to create an application that runs on the users computer, a stand-alone application, with installation and what-not, but I want the interface to be a browser, either internal and displayed as an OS window or external accessible using the browser (i.e. some http server). The reason would be because I know a little about Python, bu...

Why do browsers use my saved password for all forms in the one site?

Is there a way to limit the url of saved credentials in browsers? For example, if I save a username and password for http://www.website.com/login can I make it so that the rest of the forms in the site don't use these details? http://www.website.com/members, http://www.website.com/admin etc... I'm aware of the autocomplete attribute bu...

How to force browsers/ISPs to look for my new DNS?

hi guys, I have changed the DNS for my domain. what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old? is the temp redirecting to a subdomain should help? or you know a better way? ...

How to trigger saved password autofill in browsers?

I have a web application written in pure JavaScript (no pre-generated HTML except for the document which loads all the JS files). This app contains a login form which is created dynamically when the document.ready event event is triggered. I trick the browser into displaying the "Remember password?" dialog by posting the login form into...

How to prevent flickering on click of browser back button

Hi...I am working on Asp.Net application.I wrote the below JavaScript code to prevent the user to not going to login page on click of browser back button when he logs into the application.It is working fine for me,but from the homepage when i click on browser back button,the flickering appears due to post back.How to prevent the flicker...

Mobile Handset Detection

What is a good/accurate way of detecting mobile phone handsets programmatically? ...

Links in rounded boxes? In ALL browsers (yep included IE8)

I tried maaaany script but every time I get stuck in something bad. My goal is to create rounded boxes for links. You can see an example of I'm talking about here in the read more link (effects not necessary). Very common I know, but I want to make it work in eeeevery browsers at least safari, FF, chrome and most important IE7+ (IE6 not ...

How to launch standard browser out of Java application?

Hi there how to I open a URL with the systems standard browser with Java? I currently use this code for opening a specific URL (locally stored html file), which works fine when I run the application with my IDE (Eclipse), but after bundling the software, it doesn't work any more. url = MainWindow.class.getResource("mySite.html"); ...

Publishing Fails

Tool: Microsoft Visual studio 2008 Project Type: WPF Browser application When after rebuidling all,project is published. it fails with followiung error. Cannot publish because a project failed to build. Could not find file 'obj\Release*.exe'. Clean and rebuild All has been done, no positive signs. System has been restarted, no positiv...

Linux friendly (.NET/Mono) browser object?

Hi folks, A friend of mine (familiar with C# and .NET on Windows) has asked how to port some functionality to a Linux host. This functionality is based on a JSP web page that fetches some data from the host server and displays it in a banner on a page. His Win/C#/.NET code simply creates a browser object which loads the page and he then ...

c# copy all text from webbrowser control

is it possible to scrape all the text from a site that was navigated to by webbrowser control without looking at the source? ...

At what point in the render process of a web page can we interact with that page

I'd like to measure to distinct user experience points during the rendering of an HTML page: Point which user sees the first painting of the page Point at which user can interact with the page - meaning sees 75% of it or can actually register a button click or link click I am pretty certain these UX interactions can start before the ...

How do you handle very old browsers on your site?

Hi. We have a non-profit web site that got about 5 million hits in May. Of those, about 5,700 were from IE 5.x or lower; about 4,000 were from folks with Netscape 4.x or lower. We know that the current site's layout works for newer browsers and we're testing it on IE6 as well (along with Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Firefox). How do you ha...

Difference between Chrome and Firefox addons ? (Developers Point of view)

I have been using Firefox for since year or two as web developer and i love it, cant think of someone else because of its handy addons Now google Chrome also support addons can someone tell me difference ? Which one is best you think ? Why should i use Chrome over Mizilla ? ...

Recommend a remote java debugger for slow connections

I tried to find some debugger capable of beeing used on slow networks, like those established via VPN connections. I ended up with doing ssh and starting jdb on remote server. Using IDE debugger in this case (like Eclipse or JSwat) ended up with hangs and timeouts. I think it was because those debuggers register to too much events. Ho...

Google chrome about:####### ?

I have seen that typing about:somekeywords in browsers address bar gives some information. What is this ? Why ? Do we have something similar for the Firefox, IE also ? Example : Try below in chrome's address bar about:histograms ...

How to implement web cache: internal fragmentation VS external fragmentation

Hi there: I come up with this question when play with Firefox web cache: in which approach does the browser cache a response in limited disk space(take my configuration as an example, 50MB is the upper bound)? I think two ways can be employed. One is cache the whole response objects one by one, but this is inefficient and will introduc...