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Is it possible to have two browsers, one with Silverlight 3, one with Silverlight 4?

For development reasons, I can't install Silverlight 4 on a particular machine. Is it possible to install the Silverlight 4 plugin on one browser, e.g. in Chrome or Opera, while Firefox and Explorer continue to use the Silverlight 3 plugin? ...

IE8 forces image download on remote server

This link links to an image: http://pix-all.com/t/w Every other browser displays this image, only IE forces to download it. The correct headers are set via PHP. Is odd though that it works on my local testing server. Any ideas why? ...

prevent data uri from being added to history?

is it possible to prevent a data:text/html; uri page from being stored in the browser history? ...

Difference in css position IE/FF, how to solv my problem?

Ive made some divs and it works as intended in firefox: http://yfrog.com/0y95240044p But not in internet explorer 8: http://yfrog.com/0obadpp Anyone have a tip? structure is like this: <div id="imgntxt"> <div id="imgntxtImg"> <div id="imgntxtNav1"></div> </div> <div id="imgntxtText">text</div> </div> imgContainer gets a image a...

How to launch a browser in view source mode?

I want to open a file in a web browser (anyone will do) and I want to see it in the view source mode instead of in the standard browser window. This can be done in two steps, by opening the file and then go to the view source window (different shortcuts in each browser), but I want to directly go to the view source window. I have not fou...

get url of all tabs in a firefox window (if posssible all ff windows)

I can retrieve the url of current tab in firefox using var wm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"] .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator); var mainWindow = wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser"); var tabbrowser = mainWindow.gBrowser; var url = tabbrowser.currentURI.spec; Now i want to d...

How can I see the coded results of a $('#x').html(.....) call?

The browser renders my changes properly for that function, but I cannot see the source when I use the "view source" menu item. How can I see the changed source HTML? ...

Java Webstart...interaction with browsers on different platforms

This post is similar to this post, but not exactly, so I'm asking this question. How does one go about, From a Java WebStart app: launch a new browser window with a target URL? bring an existing browser window into focus with a target URL? Is the solution OS/platform independent? Does it matter which browser you're talking to? ...

Looping over all tabs in IE 8

Question: I want to loop over all open tabs in Internet Exporer (for all open IE windows) and save the URL in a text file. How can I do that ? I have windows 7 32 bit and IE 8. Code for Firefox/Google chrome would also be welcome. ...

Is there a way to show a 3-D surface plot in the browser?

I've got a bunch of data for 3-D surface plots. I want to build a quick web interface to let me browse through that data. Are there any (free) packages out there that can easily show surface plots? I found this question but the suggested libraries did not support surface plots. If it requires a plugin like flash / java that is fine. Thi...

How to override embedded style in chrome?

Chrome appends an stylesheet and it make a lot of problems for me. for example this selector html>body, html>body * {background-color:#ffffff !important} is one oe the things I can't override in my own styles. Anyone has a solution for that? ...

Browser PDF File Previwer(Google Style)

Hi All, I am working on an application which needs to preview privileged content in the browser. The preview should work in a way that its NOT possible to download the content. Only reading within the browser is allowed. I have looked at google docs preview but it needs the url of the docs to accessible online. I need to work with cont...

How to create many div's with 100% height?

I need a html document, that contains multiple div's with 100% height (screen filling) one below the other. I have tried to apply every element a height of 100%, but that won't work seamless nor clean. Maybe there is a option with JavaScript? I don't have an idea. Please suggest me your solutions. chris ...

Mac vs. Windows Browser Font Height Rendering Issue

I'm using a custom font and the @font-face tag. In Windows, everything looks great, regardless of whether it's Firefox, Chrome, or IE. On Mac, it's a different story. For some reason, the Mac font renderer thinks the font is a lot shorter than it is. For example, consider this test code (live example here): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "...

How to play a sound file under Android browser.

Is there any way to play a sound file under Android browser? ...

How to Open Print Friendly Page Windows?

Our users can currently select a number of funds from a page and go to another page to see the funds compared on a chart. I now have to present the user with an option to produce a print-friendly fact sheet page for each fund in the chart. The requirement is that each page will open in a new window (or tab), and be minimised so as not t...

Can I Open a New Browser Window Minimised with Print Dialog Already Open?

I understand I can call window.print() when the page loads to load the print dialog, but can I force the window to be minimised from the point that it's opened and the print dialog is generated? Ideally it would be minimised until the user maximises it. Thanks ...

Javascript function, on web page close

Hello there, I have an problem that i can not solve. The problem is this way: When i close my page on some browser i want an message box to appear and to ask me if I really want to close the page or not. logically: click on x (close tab on web browser) and than the box appears with two buttons yes and now, if i click yes the page wi...

Event on HTML selection

Is there an event for situations where something is selected on an HTML page like arbitrary text within a span element? Does such a thing exist or does one need to poll at regular interval & analyze the window.getSelection() ? I would like to trap this event type from within a browser extension (Chrome). ...

Detecting if a browser is using Private Browsing mode

I'm building an extranet for a company paranoid about security. They want to make sure that (among other things) their users are browsing the site with the Private Browsing mode switched on in their web browser so that no cookies or history is kept. I found only this http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/03/detecting-private-browsin...