This question has a discussion of progressive enhancement. My question is about the alternative type of web application. If you have a web app in which the UI is constructed almost entirely in Javascript, won't gracefully degrade, has a desktop feel, etc., what is that kind of web application called? ...
I am a systems programmer, so i just know some basic css/html. I like to learn basic of template development for sites. I have some idea about joomla. wordpress, and I am also experimenting with few wikis. A friend of mine is fireworks/photoshop advanced user, it looks quite easy to make a template using fireworks. Is there any equivalen...
How do I remove the buttons in a jquery dialog? Per example, I tried re-calling .dialog with the correct new options, but the dialog seems unaffected. $('.selector').dialog('option', 'buttons', {} ); does not work, and nor does it work if actual new button strings and functions are declared. Thoughts? ...
For a web-app product which would need to be installed by the customer on their own servers (think FogBugz or the self-hosted Wordpress package), which technology stack would result in a smoother/easier installation? Our target platforms are known: Windows/IIS/SQLSever and Linux/Apache/MySQL. But the technology stack to be used is bein...
I was thinking recently about what projects I could start that would be of use to me and this came up. I post on various forums a daily updated journal entry that is the same for each forum. I also keep a log of the journal entries as individual docx files on my hard drive. I figured it would be great if I could create a program that ...
Any party know of a product which will alert if a website renders bad - different than alert if the website is down. If the http service is operating and the rendered output includes keywords such as "error" then i would like a notification. this is different than if the http service is not available. for scenarios if consultant makes ...
Hi, I have 2 asp.net web applications, one of which is the main application and the second one is referencing the first application for like master pages , themes etc, and the main frameset that will point to the second application's webform based on database values (menu generated from database); All my actual forms are in the second ...
Hi, say I have a css class name div.TestClass { float:left;etc// } span.SpanTestClass { float:right;etc// } on my form, I have got many spans and divs. is there an easy way to implement all the classes for my spans and divs instead of typing them all out when I create a new span or div? instead of this: <span id=span1 cl...
Hi, I have an update panel with some controls in it. for example, I have a label, a textbox and a button to postback. My label text is retrieved from the resource file, therefore, during page load I do the following Page_Load() { If(!isPostBack) { Label.Text = //Resource value; } } Problem is, after posting ...
I am using Drupal 6x and want that any authenticated user/site member should be able to edit his comment irrespective of the nature of reply, and keeping the threaded structure (thus not using flat comments module of Drupal) The relevant code in the comment.module seems to be function comment_access($op, $comment) { global $user; ...
Hello, I am developing a simple web app that uses the Google translation API in order to translate a text into different languages and then back to the first one. The problem is that when I call google.language.translate(...) a callback function is specified which updates a textarea in my page. Here: while (i < translationNumber) { g...
I'm getting the following error from my WCF service which is returning the results of a query in C# objects. The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (131072) has been exceeded I know how to resolve this via MaxReceivedMessageSize What I'm looking to find out is how do I find out what contributes to the message size. It do...
Brief: I work in a 2-men team (we may expand in future). We've got a web-dev server and we've got a production server. Currently, when we start development, we start them on localhost, then we deploy them to web-dev (which we have access through a mounted drive) and we submit changes from this "shared" drive to SVN. Final test on web-dev...
I sometimes wonder what happens when you submit a form multiple times and the internet server is processing the previous request? Is there any problems that can be caused in any special condition? Edit Any problems at the client end? for example when webserver send two responses? ...
Say I have a query that fetches [type][show_name]. For all [type]==5 records, I need to join them with another table. What would be the best approach for that: Join for all records between the two tables (looks bad). Run the query and then run again on the result set, fetch all the IDs and do a IN query on the table I need to join...
Consider a web form with a dropdown. Based on the selection in the dropdown, some options are displayed - not many, say two or three for each selection. When the user clicks OK, the server creates a new object, type determined by the dropdown, attributes from the appropriate options. So the server has to do three things based on the d...
If you open the following url in Internet Explorer (IE6/7/8) and hover over the "Find Portrait" link a popup shows up. When you try to select a value from the month or year dropdown, Internet Explorer loses focus and the popup closes. It shouldn't close. This happens only in Internet Explorer. jQuery v.1.3.2 is used for the events handli...
We recently built a large ASP.NET web forms application for a client and the main point of contact has told me he wants to learn more about the technical side of web applications. He has no programming experience and has a primarily business background. I have provided him with many online resources, however he would like to get some bo...
I have to admit I never had to worry about Firefox versions before when it came to CSS, but for some reason, FF 3.5 is not positioning some of my elements properly as compared to how FF2 and FF3.0 do. Now I am faced with having to detect if its FF 3.5. Here is what I do now for handling CSS across FF and IE: <!-- MAIN STYLESHEET --> <...
I am planning on teaching myself PHP. I was wondering if I should use LAMP or a Microsoft stack. I have access to both. I would like to know which will ultimately be easiest to learn, but be the most relevant. ...