Have you experimented with single page web application, i.e. where the browser only 'GETs' one page form the server, the rest being handled by client side javascript code (one good example of such an 'application page' is Gmail)? What are some pro's and con's of going with this approach for simpler applications (such as blogs and CMSs)?...
To my knowledge, the only way to link to a Calendar event in dotCMS (from a Field element type with a WYSIWYG display type) would be for the user to hard-code it into the URL anchor so that it'll look something like events/event.dot?id=12345. This method is highly prone to breaking as dotCMS automatically replaces the old event with a ne...
Hi, I'm using ADF Faces 11g\JDeveloper 11g to develop a web application and using Weblogic 10.3 to deploy it. I'm having some issues when I navigate to the same JSP page. Example: I have a page using a template: <f:view> <af:document id="d1"> <af:form id="f1"> <af:pageTemplate viewId="/base/te...
I'm using the PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServices (Spring Security 2.04) in Grails App in conjunction with the OpenIDAuthenticationProcessingFilter. The configuration is as follows (This is Grails's DSL equivalent to Spring resource.xml but it should be quite easy to adapt): customTokenRepository(JdbcTokenRepositoryImpl) { dataSour...
I am trying to detect is a visitor is human or not. I just got an idea but not sure if this will work or not. But if I can store a cookie on the persons browser and retrieve it when they are browsing my site. If I successfully retrieve the cookie can this be a good technique to detect bots and spiders? ...
To learn from good examples, what are the best open source Google App Engine applications out there? I don't care if it is Java or Python based. Please one app per answer. Feel free to add a link to the live app (if there is) and to the project page. ...
Hello there! I have a database in SQL Server 2008 that supports various applications. I am now starting the development of a new application and, from that database, I require data that fits in one table (though there is some replication). The data I way may be extracted to a view (a few inner joins) with 6 columns. I'm developing a we...
I need to use different hi-style fonts in my webpage. But i had fear that, if the user had no such font, then they will be displayed with default font. How to use different new font that should be compatible with all users? ...
Hi, just wondering if a PHP web framework or templating engine exists, that uses the clean view philosophy used in Lift, the Scala webframework. In short the clean view philosophy, is that there should be zero code in the views. And that the view should be valid HTML. I would like to replace a typical piece of PHP code like this: <ul...
So let's that I have two dependent objects whose id's i pass in the query string, and let's say I am not going through parent to get the child but rather I read child directly via dao and I can save it also, without going through parent. What should one do on the client side, or should I even check it to see if id of the parent in the qu...
Hello I am a student carrying out a study to enhance a search engine's existing algorithm. I want to know how I can evaluate the search engine - which I have improved - to quantify how much the algorithm was improved. How should I go about comparing the old and new algorithm? Thanks ...
there are the criteria can style the modal box(round corner, window and background color etc ) allow embedded html and custom its position can custom style for the 'forward' and 'back' buttons, their images and positions have a 'play' button for image slideshow or allow custom JavaScript to do so thanks ...
I have a feedback pop up (TickBox) that loads a cross domain iFrame and when submitting the form it loads the "thanks for...." page. I want that when user submits the feedback button it should hide the iFrame wrapper. I know that because of the "same origin policy" security limitations you cant get the actual location of the iFrame wh...
I read a book a while back (I don't know which one) that referred to these characters as "corn holders" or something clever. What do you call these characters across different web technologies that escape into code blocks with <% %>? ...
I'm building a web application where one of the features causes users to be notified in real-time when an alert pertaining to them occurs, similar to the big orange bar in Stack Overflow. I have a few options, and I was wondering if there was a usability guideline on the best way to go about this. One option is to have a small notifica...
I have a web form that will upload a user-selected file. I need to get the icon file that is registered on the user's system for this file to upload it along with the uploaded file. How can I access a local file and extract its associated icon in the browser with JavaScript? If this can be done, and you know how, thanks in advance. ...
I have been looking at the Rx Framework aslo refered to as LINQ to events. This is definately a great thing but I have been wondering if anyone sees this as having any uses in web applications rather than just normal windows based apps? ...
I have an idea for a web service, but am very new to web programming. Django looks great and like something I can pick up quickly. I have a lot of experience in Haskell (and very little in python) and would like to be able to start writing some of the backend non-web-related things in my favorite language. But of course I don't want to d...
So ive been trying to debug this friggin spacing issue for the last 4 hours.. and I cant friggin solve it!!! If you go to http://myurbanlunchbox.com you will see right away what I am refering to. The image slider has spacing issues, but only in IE6 and IE7.. (as usual). Can anyone point out where im going wrong? ...
On Java side, we have a servlet filter that handles authentication. We don't have to change all other servlet or JSPs to add authentication to the page, unless the page needs customized content. How can we achieve the same on PHP? We don't use any frameworks on PHP. ...