web-development

What tools are available for QA a Website? That is treated as a Unit Testing

We are looking for QA tool that allow us to test functionality in our web applications. At this moment we QA all our work/enhancements/defects by hand, but we have so many webapps that is difficult to QA the entire site for a few changes. We want to have a list of Test Cases that we will run every time we will push a change to developm...

how can I make template of blogger from PSD files !

hi, I'd like to change my template on my blog; I design a template using the gaint PhotoShop but; how can I make template of blogger from PSD files ! ...

Scriptaculous vs JQuery for rich client side effects

Scriptaculous vs JQuery for rich client side effects. What would you use and why? ...

Persistent login info from server to server

Hi, I am currently working on 2 web servers, One Coldfusion and the other PHP. Right now, the Coldfusion server is my main server where users log in to access restricted data. However, I have also begun using a PHP server and want to make it transparent for users to access a specific page on that server - that server requires log in inf...

web development environment pick and download

A while back i found a website that would allow you to select a javascript library, including versions (jquery, proto, mootools, etc) and folder directry structure (eg. img, js, includes, html), etc all choosen through a web form and downloaded as a zip. i thought it was a great idea, anyone know of the website, or the technical name of...

IRequiresSessionState - how do I use it?

I need to be able to change when I can see session state. I found out about the IRequiresSessionState Marker Interface, but have not been able to figure out how to use it. I think I may be missing something obvious. Can one of you C# guru's give me a quick 1-2-3 step through? (e.g. 1 create a new class, 2. put public interface IRequir...

Setting a 4px height on a div results in a ~12 pixel space in IE8

<div id="spacer"> </div> + #spacer { height: 4px; } Firefox and Safari do it right, the space on screen is small. IE8 makes it bigger than 4px. WTF. If I set it to 200 pixels or whatever, the space is huge. It decreases until I get to around 15 px, at which point IE continues to draw a 15ish px space despite the css saying 4...

Listbox selectedindex property change doesn't update the UI

Using javascript, I am trying to change the selection of the listbox item like this: function selectFirstActiveListItem(oListBox) { for (var i = 0; i < oListBox.options.length; i++) { oListBox.selectedIndex = i; var szStatus = GetDomboBoxItemAttribute("Status", m_pdocConnec...

Window Media Player issues two requests for the audio on web page

I'm using Windows Media Player in a web page. I have version 11 installed so that is the version I'm testing with right now. The player is embedded on the page with this HTML: <OBJECT id='MS_mediaPlayer' width="400" height="45" classid='CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6' codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/control...

File Server Design Approaches.

I have been working on designing a file server that could take the load off from the primary website, and serve images/files over the web to the client. Primary goals of the file server: - Take off load from primary server hosting the site - Reuse the existing web server code base and avoid duplication of code/logic for better maintaina...

Implementing "this is taking too long" message with jQuery

How to implement a gmail-like "this is taking too long" warning message using jQuery Ajax API? For those who have never seen this message on gmail, it appears when the 'signing in' process takes too long for completion, and then some solutions are suggested. I'm using jQuery Ajax on my website and I want to warn users when page loading...

how can I make template of blogger from PSD fiels , PSD to XML file !

hi, I created a blog on blogger.com I design a template with photoshop and I'd like to transforme it to xml file to make it as blogger template ... mm what's the solution , can I do this act ! can I generate a xml file from PSD ... I don't know ... I read that I can and I saw a blog about this subject ,but I don't remeber wher ! any ...

Tooltip gets hidden behind controls in IE6!

Hi, While mousing over a particular label in my web application, the tooltip that has to be displayed gets hidden behind the adjacent control, thereby providing less visibility. It works in IE7 and Firefox properly, but not in IE6.Any possible solution to this problem? Thanks, Geetha ...

How to approach problem of creating graphic buttons with dynamic text for web page

I want to be able to create links looking like buttons with dynamic text and graphic bakground, these buttons also have to change their apperance on mouse over/mouse down and when subpage which button corresponding to is currently opened ame as mouse down) I want to avoid using - java script/jquery - server-side generated images - f...

What are the differents step that we have to go through when developing a website ?

Web development is a mess. This is because we have to interact with a lot of people. Businness, Designers, Developpers, Leads, etc... A website is a mixture of a lot of skills which involves programmers, designers, seo experts, business persons, ergonomists, etc... So, the question is, how do you work to make all those people understan...

What's a good book about web crawling?

I'm searching for a good book which discusses the problems of developing a web-crawler in java. Not this typical "search engine optimization" books. What books can you recommend? ...

Best way to include/update common elements on a small html based site.

I know that with a large site you would want to separate footers, menus, etc so that updating that file would push the update out to every page that contains the item. Is the same recommended for a small site made purely in HTML/CSS, or is it simpler/easier/standard to code out the menu in each page and update each page when a change is...

Is it possible to get a list of node types (or even property types) in Alfresco?

Is there a way that I can call alfresco via webscript and get back a list of node types or list of node properties that are available? So if there are three different node types (cm:content, cm:folder, and cm:foo), I'd get that three returned to me (and not actually nodes that are one of these three types)? Reason why I'm asking is th...

what software can help me to unwar a war file and get the java source code within it ?

what software can help me to unwar a war file and get the java source code within it ? ...

How to simiulate a JSON call from an HTTP GET Call?

At this moment I am calling my index view in one of two ways. Using the normal http view and serializing it JSON. In order to test it I am using the code below, and it works. I want to get it with a http get call. Like (http://localhost/article,json or something similar. Any ideas. $.getJSON("/Article", function(json) { $...