I'm downloading a web page (tag soup HTML) with XMLHttpRequest and I want to take the output and turn it into a DOM object that I can then run XPATH queries on. How do I convert from a string into DOM object? It appears that the general solution is to create a hidden iframe and throw the contents of the string into that. There has been ...
Im trying to create a bookmarklet for posting del.icio.us bookmarks to a seperate account. I tested it from the command line like: wget -O - --no-check-certificate \ "https://seconduser:[email protected]/v1/posts/add?url=http://seet.dk&description=test" and this works great I then wanted to create a bookmarklet in my ...
Just ran into this weird problem with a user using Mac OS X. This user always had a failed upload. The form uses a regular "input type=file". The user could upload using any browser except Firefox 3 on his Mac. Only this particular user was seeing this error. Obviously, the problem is only with this one particular user....
Using Firebug v1.20b7 with Firefox v3.0.1 I use firebug a lot for web devlopment. I have very often the problem that Firebug won't show its web console for seeing the POSTs and GETs. I can view all the other tabs, including the NET tab that gives me a lot of the same information that the CONSOLE tab does. Curious if anyone else has had...
I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and it's displaying differently using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu and WinXP. Two things I've noticed on Ubuntu: The favicon is missing The background color isn't displaying (it's set in the stylesheet) What have I done wrong? The CSS file is being fetched under Ubuntu, so ...
I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and when using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu I don't see the favicon; Firefox 3.0.1 on WinXP shows it. Why isn't the favicon displaying under Ubuntu? It's a favicon.ico file in the root directory, not referenced in the meta tags; would it work better as a GIF? ...
This page from Adobe says to add a "wmode" parameter and set its value to "transparent": http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_1420 This works flawlessly in IE. The background renders correctly in Firefox and Safari, however as soon as you use the browser's scroll bar then mouse over the Flash control you must cl...
Recently I have been having issues with Firefox 3 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I will click on a link and it will hang for a while. I don't know if its a bug in Firefox 3 or a page running too much client side JavaScript, but I would like to try and debug it a bit. So, my question is, is there a way to have some kind of process explorer, or...
Thanks to FireFox's buggy implementation of ActiveX components (it really should take an image of them when printing) Flex components (in our case charts) don't print in FX. They print fine in IE7, even IE6. We need these charts to print, but they also have dynamic content. I don't really want to draw them again as images when the use...
I've always wanted a way to make a socket connection to a server and allow the server to manipulate the page DOM. For example, this could be used in a stock quotes page, so the server can push new quotes as they become available. I know this is a classic limitation (feature?) of HTTP's request/response protocol, but I think this coul...
Everyone remembers google browser sync right? I thought it was great. Unfortunately Google decided not to upgrade the service to Firefox 3.0. Mozilla is developing a replacement for google browser sync which will be a part of the Weave project. I have tried using Weave and found it to be very very slow or totally inoperable. Granted they...
Does anyone know of a firefox extension, or some other tool, that enables you to 'record' the interactions with a website, and then play them back, as a way of testing a website? ...
How can I convince Firefox (3.0.1, if it matters) to send an If-Modified-Since header in an HTTPS request? It sends the header if the request uses plain HTTP and my server dutifully honors it. But when I request the same resource from the same server using HTTPS instead (i.e., simply changing the http:// in the URL to https://) then Fi...
I am maintaining a few web applications. The development and qa environments use invalid/outdated ssl-certificates. Although it is generally a good thing, that Firefox makes me click like a dozen times to accept the certificate, this is pretty annoying. Is there a configuration-parameter to make Firefox (and possibly IE too) accept any...
What are some resources for getting started writing a Firefox Addon? Is there an API guide somewhere? Is there a getting started tutorial somewhere? Is there a developer discussion board somewhere? ...
Debugging asp.net websites/web projects in visual studio.net 2005 with Firefox is loads slower than using IE. I've read something somewhere that there is a way of fixing this but i can't for the life of me find it again. Does anyone know what i'm on about and can point me in the right direction please? Cheers John edit sorry rob i ...
Using CSS, I'm trying to specify the height of a SPAN tag in Firefox, but it's just not accepting it (IE does, funnily enough). Firefox accepts the height if I use a DIV, but the problem with using a DIV is the annoying line break after it, which I can't have in this particular instance. I tried setting the CSS style attribute of: dis...
I'm not talking about tools that let one view a page in combinations of operating systems and browsers like crossbrowsertesting.com but in creating or figuring out the actual CSS. ...
I have the following HTML (note the CSS making the background black and text white) <html> <select id="opts" style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <option>first</option> <option>second</option> </select> </html> Safari is smart enough to make the small triangle that appears to the right of the text the same colo...
What I am trying to do is change the background colour of a table cell <td> and then when a user goes to print the page, the changes are now showing. I am currently using an unobtrusive script to run the following command on a range of cells: element.style.backgroundColor = "#f00" This works on screen in IE and FF, however, when you ...