cross-browser

has anyone tried designing a webpage for psp?

erm im trying to make a personal bible for my psp (i tried googling but the only bible version i've seen on my skimming is on KJV and im trying to make mine have 3 versions namely TNIV, NLT and Amplified Bible) so my only solution was to make on for myself and my approach was to save an html file on my mem-stick and open it up through t...

Use IE8 Compatibility Mode for Testing Web Page Rendering of IE6?

I am still running IE6 on my development PC because I use it to test the websites I'm developing. I normally only test on IE6, assuming that IE6 is the lowest common denominator of IE family of browsers. If it renders well on IE6, it will be OK for IE7 and IE8. The other browser I use heavily for testing is Firefox 3.x. I assume th...

IE (Z-index rendering problem)

Hi, I have an ASP.NET application that renders a 3rd party (Telerik's) menu control under another control (RadDock) when the menu expands. This artifact ONLY happens in IE7. Not in Safari/FF/Opera/Chrome (Have I left any out?) The menu control needs to be rendered OVER the other control. I have Google'd this a fair amount, but hav...

Opacity issues in Chrome and IE

Hi.. I am seeing weird behavior in IE 7 and Chrome with changing the opacity on a transparent background png in my navigation. the CSS : ul.tabs a { height: 48px; filter:alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity:0.8; -khtml-opacity: 0.8; opacity: 0.8; } div.header ul.tabs a:hover { filter:alpha(opacity=100); ...

Delivering json content to different browser types using restlet

We have developed a RESTful webservice using the restlet framework. The service is called by ajax requests using Prototype and/or Scriptaculous (I'm not familiar with those libraries, so excuse if any of these mentioned are not accurate). Everything seems to work for most of the popular browsers, i.e. Opera, Firefox, Safari all work fin...

YUI: customizing message browser shows when cancelling window close event

I have a YUI application. Under certain circumstances I want to alert the user before he closes the window. Therefore I capture the window close event and do onWindowClose: function(e) { if (...) { YAHOO.util.Event.preventDefault(e); } } The browser shows a standrd message: "Are you sure you want to navigate ...

How do you package clickable url's with your application?

I asked a similar question a while ago but didn't get a satisfactory answer, so I was wondering if there was a different approach a guy could take. What is the format for making a web link that you can deploy with your application? One that might show up in the start menu as a link to said app vendor's website. It should work in any m...

How do I control the styling of an html unordered list?

Who thought that styling a list of links could be so troublesome! First issue I would like to use an arbitrary char as the bullet. I am sure now that this is impossible but maybe you know different? In any case I would like to control the distance between the bullet and the contents of the <li>. I would like to control the height of th...

How to add/update an attribute to an HTML element using javascript?

I'm trying to find a way that will add / update attribute using javascript. I know I can do it with SetAttribute function but that doesn't work in IE. ...

Are there any rules regarding special characters/entities and innerHTML?

When I use innerHTML from javascript, the browser (Safari and Firefox at least) seem to replace certain characters and numeric entities with their named entities. The character \xa0 (non breaking space) gets replaced by &nbsp;, &#60; (lesser than) gets replaced by &lt;. But for example the umlaut ü is not replaced with &uuml;. I have...

Is there any good way to get microphone audio input to server using just a web browser?

I need to get audio input from users having just browsers (and not only IE). Is there any good way to get audio stream with a brouser to server. If it possible to avoid Java, flash etc? Thanks. ...

Rotating table header text with CSS transforms

This looks like it should be possible with the following: .verticalText { /* IE-only DX filter */ writing-mode: tb-rl; filter: flipv fliph; /* Safari/Chrome function */ -webkit-transform: rotate(270deg); /* works in latest FX builds */ -moz-transform: rotate(270deg); } This works in IE. It goes wro...

Capture and 'Escape' Kepress in WebKit Browsers

I have a dialogue box which appears, and I would like it to be hidden again when you hit the escape key. That all works fine in IE, Fx, Opera - the code registers a document.onkeypress event handler when the box is shown, then tests the event keyCode to see if it's the escape key or not (keyCode 27), but this doesn't seen to work in Web...

FInd Javascript Error In IE 7?

I had Put a digg button in my blog. The blog runs fine on firefox and opera,but when i open it in ie7 it shows javascript error.clicking on that little triangle doesn't show any information..how to remove that error? ...

Web app to client interaction?

I am designing a web app that has some information that needs to be transferred to a client side (non-browser) application (i.e. Outlook). Assuming the client side app has an API of some sort, I need for the web app to trigger the client side (based on a user clicking a link) to get the information and transfer it into the client app th...

Efficient ways to test cross-browser functionality?

I'm interested in finding out how people are testing for cross-browser functionality( for css and javascript)? Do you use any tools? ...interesting methods, besides just opening IE/FF/Safari etc... ...

Does setting document.domain work in all (most) browsers?

The Same Origin Policy Documentation says this: There is one exception to the same origin rule. A script can set the value of document.domain to a suffix of the current domain. If it does so, the shorter domain is used for subsequent origin checks. For example, assume a script in the document at http://store.company.com...

Javascript document.all and document.getSelection - Firefox alternative

The script below will replace selected word in a textarea. But it only works on IE. Any idea how to make it work on Firefox? (The problem seems to lie in (document.all)? document.selection.createRange() : document.getSelection();) <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!--// var seltext = null; var repltext = null; function replaceit() { selt...

Detecting when Iframe content has loaded (Cross browser)

I'm trying to detect when an iframe and its content have loaded but not having much luck. My application takes some input in text fields in the parent window and updates the iframe to provide a 'live preview' I started with the following code (YUI) to detect when the iframe load event occurs. $E.on('preview-pane', 'load', function(){ ...

load ActiveX object in Applet

Hi, I have a web application that processes events and audio received from a specialised microphone. The audio is processed by a Java applet that runs in the web page, but other events (microphone connected, microphone disconnected, microphone button pressed) are handled by an ActiveX object. The ActiveX object traps these events and c...