We have a richfaces table (rich-table style class) and we would like to have some space on top of the table. We tried using margin-top on the above style class with values in px and in %age. But the resultant behavior was different in both the browsers. FF produces more space compared to Chrome. How do we get around this issue and be bro...
PROBLEM: Build a web-application that allows a human-being to create a new username, but where the username does not reveal any personal information about that individual. Moreover, the username should be easy for the individual to remember whenever they visit the website. QUESTION: What is the best approach for creating a name that ...
Some websites (I have seen quite a few bank websites do it) will have a user log in from their main website and then when the user clicks on log in, a pop window will open with the user session. This session will usually not contain any of the their typical browser menus or url address bar. I have read from a user experience perspective...
I'm working on a design project and I'm having a hard time figuring out the UI for the last part: grades (1 to 10 + date of grade) and attendance (date of missed class). This is the admin side, which includes adding, editing and deleting both grades and attendance. Each student will have on their page a list of all the subjects, like so:...
Hi, I have an HTML interface developed using the usual suspects and I have a list of check boxes, which are segments / groups which the user can run a report on. These segments need to be created on the server, so generally would not be available until the next day after creating them. My issue is that I need a graceful way to di...
I am having a form having around 20-25 fields. I have put all these fields on one page and a submit button to complete my functionlaity. But i am not happy with the length of page and feel like users will be demotivated using this page can somebody help me with suggestions? ...
I am having some issue with consistency across different machines with my flex application. There are three things that I have noticed with my application. On my development machine (Windows XP) I can not reproduce these issues. I have noticed them on a Windows Vista machine as well as a Windows 7 machine. The three things that I hav...
I have an in-memory representation of a basic tree structure. I want to dynamically generate a representation of this tree structure in the UI and allow users to click on nodes to reveal (text-based) details about the node. The UI would conist of icons for node types linked via branches. How would you suggest I approach this? All the UI ...
cont from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1444469/jquery-droppable-accept $(".droppable").droppable({ accept: function(d) { if(d.hasClass("foo")||(d.attr("id")=="bar")){ return true; } } }); what if i wasn't targeting an element but a set of elements? like "ul#moo li" for example. how wou...
I have a problem with changing the background of AutoCompleteField. No matter what I try, the background is gray all the time (isn't it strange it is gray by default in the first place...). Anyone knows how to make the background white (like it is for instance in BlackBerry email client)? Thanks in advance! ...
What is the widely-accepted way to store interface choices, such as 'Do not show this message again' settings, and any other interface-specific choices of the user? Registry? Settings files? I can also store them in a database, since my program already has access to one. EDITS My current program is local, however in the future I would ...
On the Emacs development list there is long thread (you can find it here) about the "Emacs learning curve" (this is the name of the thread). The participants have various opinions about why some people may not want to use Emacs. If you gave an Emacs a try in the past and then chose an other editor/IDE instead then please describe in your...
I've been looking at various ways to allow a user to select one or more choices from a list of approximately 29-30 options. I've come up with the following four types, and wonder which is preferred/most usable. See http://workingstorage.com/multiple%20selection.png ...
Hi! I am writing an app and I was wondering how could you add something to the windows context-menu (when you right click on the windows exspor) like in 7Zip or winRAR to preform certain actions i.e. encrypt file\zip file; in vb.net, or perhaps is there a way in the windows installer template? I don't really want to use the shell method...
Image a couple of objects for which one property can have 3 possible values. To edit them I want to use a radio button group with 3 buttons. If you have one object selected, it's obvious which radio button to select. But which what to select if multiple objects with different values of this property are selected? A radio button group wit...
So, I have a basic app for storing, searching, and manipulating data. Basic CRUD operations. In various places of my code where I'm storing or updating this data, I basically have this: NSError *error; if (![self.managedObjectContext save:&error]) { // TODO: Handle this error NSLog(@"Error while saving data %@, %@", error, [error ...
I have a tabhost setup as per the tutorial here. What I want to do is set the titlebar text according to the currently selected tab. Any idea how to achieve this? ...
I have the following scenario: The website presents the user with a list of choices. The user can vote for them. The user has 3 votes that he can spend. He can place all 3 votes on one item, or he can distribute them among multiple items. He can also change his vote placements later (the choices aren't fixed and a new, better choice mig...
I need to display a bunch of data in a table on a website as part of a report. The problem is there's a bunch of it, and it needs to be visually grouped. Each piece of data is a "usage" of an item, and has a date (representing when it was used), a store number (corresponding to the store that used it), an item name (the item that was us...
How to save an users vote on a particular comment? For example if someone likes a comment posted on the site he/she will click the (+) button or other way will click the (-) button. How could i save this information to mysql, so that when the user come back to the site I can show his/her vote on the comment? Something like facebook comme...