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What programs can convert your game into a browser based game?

I have been working on a game and want to convert it to a browser based game where I can host it through my website. Are there any programs that can convert games into a browser based game? Thanks for your help, ...

Issues with using # for deep linking into dynamic apps?

I have a Flex app I built. It uses the BrowserManager class to listen for changes in the # part of the URL. When a change is made to the hash my application updates accordingly so you can link directly to a state of the application. Also inside my programming when a user clicks something, all I do is use the BrowserManager to update the ...

Force page load from cache

Hi All, In our web application,in Mozilla Firefox, whenever the user clicks on back button, it loads the previous page from cache (server side methods are not called). But in IE it calls the server side methods. Is it possible to force the page load from cache when the user clicks on Back or Forward button of the browser? Can someone p...

What is the best way to determine if a web-page is for mobile?

Should I scan for tags in the html code? Or what? What determines whether a page is optimized for mobile? One option is to scan for tags. If so, what other tags are there? <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="..." /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" /> Another option is to see if the HTML returned fr...

LAMP web server file permissions

Hi SO, I've got a LAMP webserver running my homepage (index.html in var/www/). I'd like to know in general how to set my file permissions so that browsers can't access anything besides the html/php files I want to show. Right now I've sort of accidentally chmodded everything to 777. I understand that .htaccess only protects the www fo...

how to send a post request with a web browser

how to send a post request with a web browser? ...

Image script wont work in Chrome.

Hi all. I've just redesigned my website, and seemingly all is well. However someone has pointed out that the image galleries are not viewable correctly in chrome. It's driving me mad, and I can't work it out. Can anyone spot an obvious mistake? Thanks a lot. The URL is: http://www.create-imaginations.com/ ...

Does webpage content go to DRAM or Video RAM, and what if Video RAM runs out?

If the project has a page that uses jCarousel, and it has a <ul> (or <div>) that is 15860 x 375px, with 32-bit / pixel, that's close to 24MB. Or, what if it is 1000 x 700 pixel per screenful, 6 screenful per webpage, and 5 tabs of such pages, with 32 bit per pixel 1000 x 700 x 6 x 5 x 4 = 84MB does these 24MB or 84MB go to Video RAM o...

Take Screenshot of Browser via JavaScript

For support reasons I want to be able for a user to take a screenshot of the current browser window as easy as possible and send it over to the server. Any (crazy) ideas? ...

How can I spell check words ignoring optional hyphens?

I am using a RTE (TinyMce) for text creation in a browser. The RTE is inserting non-visible optional hyphens (code: '' or '\u00ad') into words of a minimum length for hyphenation as the user writes. The problem i got now is to find a spellchecker that is able to check my words even though they consist not only of letters but additionall...

SWT browser doesn't scroll

I've implemented an SWT Browser on my Windows 7 machine as follows: Browser browser; try { browser = new Browser(parent, SWT.NONE); browser.setUrl(url); } catch (final SWTError e) { System.out.println(e); } I navigate to a page that contains the following source code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitio...

jQuery slider and IE6 Issues

I'm having a few issues with our old friend IE6. The site I'm working on is for a public sector client so it has to support IE6. The slider is fine in IE7+, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. I've tried everything that I can think of but I'm drawing a blank! Can you help? IE6 on a PC. Chrome on a Mac ...

How to dynamically increse the lentgh of the url ?

How to dynamically increse the lentgh of the url ? let me more descriptive. I want to use it in asp.net version 2.0 and 3.5. The maximum length of the url in (IE 7 +) is 2048. Various size support in different browsers (http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html ) IE 7 + - 2048 Firefox - 65000 Safari - 80000 Opera - 190000 ...

Browser doesn't stop loading with jQuery $.get

I use the following jQuery (1.4) code to test whether cookies are accepted: $.get("http://localhost:8080/cookietester/cookietester", function(data) { if (data == "false") document.write("Activate cookies!"); else if(data == "true") document.write("ok"); }); But the browser signals that it doesn't stop page load...

Freezing Network Stack

I want to send out page requests from a browser window as fast as possible to test website responsiveness but don't have any idea how to do it. On the receiving end is a server that will be getting multiple packets but in order to insure that they are being processed in an FIFO manner I want to send them as close to one another as possi...

google maps location service

How does Google Maps find out my location on my Desktop/Laptop ? Google says it might use my IP or Wifi data to determine my location. But how can a Browser read my Wifi data ? Is it really possible ? Can it read my Router's MAC ID ? Signal Strength ? How ? how ? how ? ...

Amazon S3 Browser Based Upload - Prevent Overwrites

We are using Amazon S3 for images on our website and users upload the images/files directly to S3 through our website. In our policy file we ensure it "begins-with" "upload/". Anyone is able to see the full urls of these images since they are publicly readable images after they are uploaded. Could a hacker come in and use the policy d...

Raw HTTP Response shown in browser instead of being rendered

Hello there, we're facing a weird and seemingly randomly appearing problem where the browser renders the complete, raw HTTP response (to a GET request) including all headers and the compressed content as text instead of just using the contents and rendering it. This happens for whole page loads as well as postbacks as well as page loads...

SWT Browser - disabled Vertical Scroll how do i hide it?

I have a SWT shell, with an SWT browser in it. on OSX it works fine, but when on Windows it insists on putting a disabled vertical scrollbar in the shell or browser (i don't know which!). Is there a way of forcing the widgets to hide their scroll bars? When i call getVerticalScrollBar() or the horizontal equivilant on either the shell o...

Comparison of tools offered by different browsers for web developers?

How do browsers compare in terms of tools offered to web developers? What is the browser of choice for you as a web developer? What features or extensions make it so? ...