browser

Any articles on how to get started building your own browser?

Hello recently I've been a bit curious and wanted to make a browser. I'd like to use an existing engine though such as Gecko or Webkit. Are there any resources on the web for how to get started and any examples? Language choice doesn't really matter(but no VB please. That was the only example code I found) ...

Browser: Continue gif animation after escape is pressed

Firefox (and other browsers i believe) stop gif animation when you click the Stop button or invoke it via the Escape key. I have a text input that on change makes ajax requests to update other elements. As part of this ajaxyness i have an animated gif to show feedback. I also trap the escape key press in this input so as to clear the te...

How to know if the scrollbars has appeared in browser (jQuery)?

I need to know, whether a vertical scrollbar has appeared or not in browser window. Is it possible using jQuery or any other way? ...

NewWindow3 event on extended WebBrowser

I've got an extended WebBrowser control which handles the NewWindow3 event. Originally I wanted this because it exposes the Url property. What I want to happen in this NewWindow event is to cancel opening a new IE instance (so I set E.Cancel = True). Then, I want to create a new form, a new web browser control and navigate to E.Url Thi...

Problem opening a file browser dialog with a VBA macro.

I'm trying to make a macro in VBA for Delmia. That macro need to open a file and I want to use a FileBrowserDialog to found the path of this file. I use this code that I found on a site but it was for an example using Excel. In excel this code work very well. The problem in Delmia is sometimes the dialog box do not appear and sometimes ...

How do I cause the controller buttons to display for an Apple Quicktime video embedded in Firefox?

I am trying to embed a Quicktime video in Firefox, but when I do the controller buttons do not appear. I've tried both the old style embed tag and the new style object tags, but when I set the "controller" option to true there is no change in the appearance of the plugin. The video loads, but it is zoomed in on some portion of the vide...

Future of IE9: Opacity + Performance

I just tried the IE9 "Second Internet Explorer Platform Preview" - which supports CSS opacity now. That's nice, but I tried it with one of my website prototypes, and it's quite slow when scrolling etc. Admittedly, the prototype uses hundreds of images with opacity != 1, but everything is snappy with current versions of Firefox, Safari, ...

Menu: What kind is this?

I dont know what it is called but you can see on this page http://carleypelletier.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse if you click on a category you'll get a list and if there is a subcategory there will be a > at the end. When clicking this the menu text moves left off the menu and the new categories are in. How do i do this type of menu? i...

Would it be possible for web browsers to automatically update rendering engines?

As a way to prevent the major annoyances of browser segmentation and older versions. This way the code would only need to be done for the latest version of the browser, but users could still have the functionality of the older version and not be forced to do major updates? I am sure there will be some major flaws in this, and I would ...

Developing web app, question for mobile developers

I'm going to develop a web app that I expect some people will also end up wanting to view on their phones. The UI will be fairly straightforward (no frames, just CSS/HTML). May have a bit of Flash, but not for the first version. My question is, for testing viewing of the web app on mobile devices what devices would you recommend that I ...

Python/Sqlite program, write as browser app or desktop app?

I am in the planning stages of rewriting an Access db I wrote several years ago in a full fledged program. I have very slight experience coding, but not enough to call myself a programmer by far. I'll definitely be learning as I go, so I'd like to keep everything as simple as possible. I've decided on Python and SQLite for my program,...

How to ignore events in html table

Hello, I have a transparent table with width:100% which contains some html content. I use the table in order to position a content element on the screen center. The table captures mouse events, and the user can't press on links which are positioned beneath it (although it is transparent). Is there a way to tell the browser to ignore e...

Is there a way to show html source in the browser after insertion by js?

Is there a way to show html source in the browser after insertion by js via ~.innerHTML = Source; ? ...

Under what conditions can I access the HTML-DOM of a child IFrame from the hosting website?

What can cause my website to not have access to a child IFrame's DOM via Javascript? Are there cross-domain restrictions in place? Does HTTPS play a role? ...

How to pop out a Firefox window without an address bar or status?

How to pop out a Firefox window without an address bar or status, basically what i need is a bar minimum window that renders my html. ...

text field significantly bigger in certain browser

I have the below text field in my page: <input class="message" id="message" name="message" type="text" size="65" /> For some reason in the latest FireFox for OS X it is about 200pixels wider than it is in the latest Chrome (mac/pc) FireFox(pc) and IE(pc) Any suggestions on how I can fix this or why this is happening? ...

Android Autolink to launch WebView

Hi, I'm using autoLink="web" attribute in TextView to launch Browser. However, I want to launch the myActivity with WebView, when I click the links in TextView. Is is possible that catch the click event and invoke startActivity? Thanks in advance, Jason ...

WPF Application hosting a HTML page, the flash is disabled, how to enable?

Hi, I have made a small application where the user can browse to a web page, im using a "Frame" for the purpose and passes a URL to it, it then renders the destination page as HTMl. The page im trying to show shows some flash animation and my "Frame" browser cant show it, i suspect that the browser plugin is disabled, but how to enable, ...

Is there a way to manually post to a rest webservice using a browser

Is there a way to manually post an xml to a webservice using a browser something like: POST http://url/Endpoint <xml file text> ...

Conditional skin file in ASP.Net Theme based off of browser

Is there a way to use a skin file in a theme only when a certain browser is used? The theme stays the same, I just want skin A to apply when a certain browser is used, and skin B when another browser is used. I know I can have server-side code to check and then set the SkinId of the control to either or, but is there another, more glob...