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detect barcode scanner from web browser

In a jee web application, I need to read data from barcode scanner(connected to the user's machine - client side),display the data in a textbos and send the code back to the server.I think I understood how to do it. Is it possible to detect whether the scanner is connected/turned on and if not, display a warning in the web page that th...

Stop browser scripts caching in GWT App

I have a GWT app deployed onto our client's machines. As an ongoing development alongside, we have to release new improved versions of the application fron time to time. Everytime we release a new version we often run into the problem where the client's browser has cached the old scripts scriptsand for a while it behaves strangly as the ...

How to re-skin a website at the client end?

Any ways to re-skin a website (at the client end) where the format and layout of the page is mostly known and constant? For example, changing the language of a certain form on eBay to Japanese. I know that with Opera and Firefox a website's CSS can be overridden. Are there any ways in any browsers or browser plugins to override text an...

Weird "Next" link on ebay?

I'm working on a web scrapping application and was testing it with ebay. The thing is that the application should follow the link "Next" (the one at the bottom of the page that should go to the next page of results) but it kinda stays on the same page (yea, i'm actually not sure about that). If you try to open ebay and search for any ter...

Firefox on Windows not loading @FontFace resource

So I have a bit of a problem. On this page http://www.tylermorriswoodworking.com/pages/recipe-box-engraving-wizard?b=maple&l=cherry&s=3x5&c=42042892 I have a few @FontFace tags to load the custom fonts. On all the browsers it works just fine, except for Firefox for windows. Firefox for mac loads the fonts perfectly. What I am...

Alternative method to include JS files

This question is a follow up question for this question. If some browsers download JS files even though the user has JS disabled, would it make sense to include JS files using JS to ensure the user isn't forced to download the JS unnecessarily? For example: function inc(filename){ var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body').i...

How to correctly display html-page on all mobile devices/browsers.

I'm currently working on survey project where users answer surveys from they mobile phones. I need to display a vary basic pages with one question on each page, but I need to make sure they are correctly displayed on all mobile phones, because user can have wap browser, "normal" browser like opera mini and probably something else. So my ...

How to invoke the same browser instance from a web link

Hello, i have a link on my web page; when i click it i open a new window and show content in that window. I would like to be able, in a second time, to click again in that link and, instead of opening a new browser window/tab, to get the previous instance and put content on it. Is it possible in some way? Thanks in advance, greetings ...

Can you access a client's bookmarks using javascript with their permission?

I want to make it easier for a user to import bookmarks to my server. Is there anyway to automate this process using javascript to obtain the user's bookmarks? I'm assuming the browser has to have this feature - and I'm not sure if any browser does due to the inherent security risk. ...

Use a specified javascript engine?

Is it possible to use your own javascript engine in place of the browser's engine? We have a cloud based JAVA app and uses a lot of javascript and ajax. I don't know a ton about Java (just enough to get by), I'm an ajax programmer. Mozilla has a javascript engine called rhino. Is that engine only for running javascript inside a native...

How to free memory after an Ajax request

Hello, I have a very basic ajax slideshow on my website. On every scroll, the new images and response content continually increase the amount of memory used by the browser. I've done my research and tried all suggestions to reset the XHR object on each new request, but this does absolutely nothing to help. The slideshows are basic bu...

Reset an iframe before navigation

I have a parent page and an iframe. When the user clicks on a link on the parent, it loads up in iframe. But the content in iframe doesn't change immediately when you click the link. The old content remains for few seconds until a network request is initiated, and then DOM is wiped up and repopulated with the new content. What I need is...

History management (Refresh Button)

Please give me idea about the management of data in GWT. I am using Gwt in my travel portal project and my web pages is related to previous page data but when i press the refresh button of browser's then my data is lost . so please inform me if there is any way to manage this problem. ...

Browser Cache: If we change something force user to get new version, not local cached version

We make changes often on our website (which uses caching) and sometimes user don't know to refresh a page in order to get the newest copy of it. If we do update a page, how can we force the users browser to know that there is a new server version, and to use that rather than their browsers cached page? ...

Access Browser Cookies from Android App?

Is it possible to lookup native browser cookies in a custom Android App? I am not talking about WebView cookies. In my app I want to check if a user visited a website using the normal browser. Are browser cookies stored in a pubic directory somewhere on the device? ...

Android SDK web browser

I do some mobile browser testing in the Android web browser through the Android SDK in Linux and I have a couple of questions: Can I run an Android Virtual Device without the entire Android SDK? Can I autostart the web browser when starting an Android Virtual Device/emulator? ...

how to write field change listeners to browser field in blackberry

hi,how to write field change listeners to browser field in blackberry ...

Best way to make standalone chromeless browser with nothing else

I'm making an html autorun, loading it with default browser has lots of issues, rendering inconsistencies, and more issues when it's loaded internet explorer like users has to click on allow at the top when some javascript is loaded etc. What is the best solution to create a small standalone app with just a full browser control in it whi...

How to detect a specific build of webkit in a client browser?

Because of WebSocket protocol changes in WebKit nightly build r59903, I need to know whether I should run additional scripts. That depends on WebKit build number. I'm using jQuery as a platform, so assume $.browser.webkit is true. Then how do I check whether client WebKit build is 59903 or higher? $.browser.version tells something like 5...

Stop text selection from going outside a div?

I am pretty sure i seen sites that make firefox (and other browsers?) select text only within a div and not span across other divs. How do i do that ...