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User getting default Apache page instead of website - Safari/FF?

I have someone complaining that www.archstl.org (a site I manage) loads fine from his Windows PC, but not on his Mac; and apparently he can't get it anywhere he takes his Mac, either... I've heard of this happening to one other person, but I can't find an explanation. When they try loading it on their Mac using either Safari or FireFox,...

variable assignments using jQuery failing in Safari?

I'm using jQuery 1.3.2 and it's breaking under Safari 4 for mysterious reasons. All of my javascript references are made right before the tag, yet with the following code: var status = $('#status'); status.change( function(){ /* ... */ } ); The following error is displayed in the Web Inspector: TypeError: Result of expression 'sta...

safari and gzip

I'm loading jQuery from google on my site (http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js) which is minned and gzip'd. In firefox, the jquery file shows as a 19k request, but Safari shows it as a 56k request. I'm assuming then that Safari is not accepting it as a gzip'd file. What's the deal? It's coming from google an...

How can I make my .htaccess file allow Safari & other browsers to open GZIP?

I'm using an .htaccess file to allow my pages to call gzipped JavaScript files. It works fine in ie8 & ff3, but the script is not loaded in Safari (or Chrome). Here is the .htaccess file I'm using: <files *.js.gz> ForceType text/javascript Header set Content-Encoding: gzip </files> Then, for example, I can call JS files from my HTML...

Safari plugin development

I want to develop a Safari plugin using xCode, and I want to access bookmarks. What API should I use? And, since I'm asking, are there any tutorials out there for plugin dev under Safari? ...

Why does Safari let you set cookies over 4kB?

I set up an A/B test which required a fairly large amount of data to be stored in a cookie temporarily. While testing my code, I managed to get the cookie over 4kB. Safari set the cookie. On the subsequent page load, Apache returned an error since the cookie was too large. I tested this on Firefox as well and it simply ignores the cooki...

Safari and Chrome modifying form data on back button

I getting this weird issue in Safari & Chrome (works in Firefox and IE). I start off with this checkbox list which has the first item 'A' checked, and item 'B' and 'C' unchecked I then navigate to another page which orders the items that appear in the checkbox list I change the order of the items in the list so it now goes 'B', 'A', 'C...

SSRS reports viewed in Safari rendering issues

We are using SQL Server 2005 and SSRS to produce reports for a .NET2.0 C# web application. When viewing reports in Safari or Chrome we are having issues with: Missing toolbar controls - Export, Resize etc. Font size is very large. Example: When viewing in IE7/8 the font appears to be 12pts. When viewing it in Safari the font is 24pts...

Selecting text on focus using jQuery not working in Safari and Chrome

I have the following jQuery code (similar to this question) that works in Firefox and IE, but fails (no errors, just doesn't work) in Chrome and Safari. Any ideas for a workaround? $("#souper_fancy").focus(function() { $(this).select() }); ...

Safari Flash WMODE not working - anything wrong with this embed?

I've got a problem with this embed in Safari. It works just fine on all other browsers, Internet Explorer 6 included. The problem is that the embed seems to jump to the very top layer, ignoring all z-index or positioning statements. This is important, because several HTML design features are overlayed on the Flash. This embed was writte...

Stop safari evaluating document.location before saving a bookmarklet (favelet)

Hi I have created a very simple bookmarklet to submit the url of the site currently being viewed to a script: javascript:document.location%20=%20'http://www.example.com/script?user=___&amp;key=___&amp;url='+document.location I serve this as a link on an HTML page that a user can drag up into his or her bookmarks toolbar or wherever. ...

JavaScript error in Safari, only sometimes...

I have a webpage that is using jQuery to hide divs on the page load and show them later based on user interactions. In my $(document).ready() I execute a bunch of code to hide these divs and to bind a function to the click() handler from jQuery for the regions that trigger showing these divs. It also grabs some values out of the HTML t...

Javascript works in FF / IE but not Chrome / Safari

I'm working on a Drupal 6 module where I use jquery (and more specifically, the $.ajax method) to retrieve a RSS feed from Yahoo's weather API. I decided against using the JFeed library because I need access to the elements with "yweather" prefix (and I couldn't find a way of accessing them via JFeed). I decided to use the $.ajax method ...

Return Value from a Modal Dialog (IE + Safari)?

The following works in IE, but how can I get it working in Safari? My pop up script: strRet = window.showModalDialog(url,0,'Status:NO;dialogWidth:750px;dialogHeight:500px') ; form.field.value = strRet ; In the modal: window.returnValue = myValue window.close thanks! Geoff ...

Images show and then disappear in Safari

So this is really weird. If you go to http://floridahome.palmbeachpost.com/ in Safari and do a search for listings, you'll see our image not found come up on results where the images really should come up. If you don't see what I'm talking about the on the first page, click through a couple pages. If you do the same search in Firefox...

How to wait for a Java applet to finish loading on Safari?

Hi, This doesn't work in Safari: <html> <body> <applet id="MyApplet" code="MyAppletClass" archive="MyApplet.jar"> <script type="text/javascript"> alert(document.getElementById('MyApplet').myMethod); </script> </body> </html> myMethod is a public method declared in MyAppletClass. When I first load the page in Safari, it shows the ...

Safari / JQUery - Insert and Update Hidden Field On Page

In safari, Im trying to insert a Hidden field into the DOM then update its value as below. colHiddenFieldId = 'row_100000_0_NewValue' $("#" + colHiddenFieldId).val('TEST') However the value is never getting set, it looks Safari dosn't think the hidden field exists. I know it does because it works on every other browser known to man...

SharePoint 2010 and Firefox/Safari, will Kerberos work ?

As far as I know both FireFox and Safari can not work with Kerberos in a SharePoint context for the time being, but why is that, and should we expect that both FireFox and Safari will play ball in the SharePoint 2010 timeframe? ...

Safari bad frames rendering

hi guys, I've finished a site but it doesn't work well on Safari. I used (don't blame me!) frames and two white weird spaces appeared on the left ant the right of the frame "body" you can se the result here: http://www.yves-ratheau.com/ I didn't find any help on google, forums, etc... thanks to any suggestion ...

Increase SO font size via Javascript doesn’t work on my iPhone

So, I've been using this little bit of Javascript (as a bookmark) to increase the font size of various websites I visit on my iPhone's Safari browser (zooming in leads to too much scrolling from side to side). http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone-software/increase-font-size-in-safari-without-zooming-9511.html javascript:for(i=0;...