web-development

Should I still care about IE6?

Possible Duplicates: IE6: To support or not to support. Do you plan to support IE 6 on your future projects? I've finished the design and about to code HTML for a website that will use fancy form elements and effects. I'm wondering if I should support IE6? What are the latest stats? Do you support IE6 still? ...

Client-side http connections in webpage without domain restriction

I would like to make a webpage where the user browser would have to download data like with Ajax but without domain restrictions. I don't care about the technology. Flash, Java, whatever. Is it possible? ...

HTTP headers: Last-Modified - how can it mimimize server load?

Imagine the following use case: I use an AJAX request for getting some info about Item and use this URL: http://domain/items/show/1 In my database all items have a field called modified_at where we store the moment when this item was previously modified. How can Last-Modified server HTTP header in response can minimize load/reduce req...

Link all'interno di un campo testo

Ciao a tutti, nella Rails app che sto realizzando, l'utente ha la possibilita' di inserire un post (campo memo) con all'interno una URL. Ad esempio: "bla bla bla bla www.blabla.com bla bla bla ..." Nel mostrare tale post vorrei che www.blabla.com diventasse un link cliccabile (come avviene in twitter). Ovviamente deve essere fatto un...

Worth website that a web developer must surf daily?

Hello All, this may be not a right place to ask this question, but i can get best answer only from here, so i m posting here. i m a web developer and working with technology PHP,MySQL, JavaScript,jQuery,AJAX, CSS, HTML, JSON i daily surf few websites regarding web development , i know there are a lot of website with very goo...

YQL Open Data Table for Wikipedia

Has anyone written a YQL open data table for accessing Wikipedia? I've had a hunt around the internet and found mention of people using YQL for extracting various bits of information from Wikipedia pages such as microformats, links or content but I haven't been able to find an open data table that ties it all together. ...

How can I keep data that a user has entered in my jQuery/Ajax pop-up form?

I have a form on a website I'm working (you can see it here) on that allows my users to give feedback. It's an jQuery/Ajax popup form: $('.contact_us').click(function(){ var boxy_content; boxy_content += "<div style=\"width:300px; height:300px \"><form id=\"feedbacked\">"; boxy_content += "<p>Subject<br /><input type=\"text...

cross-domain javascript

I am producing a javascript-based widget. Nothing complex just a few document.writes... When I place it inline in the page it renders fine in all browsers. When I place it externally and load it via <script src="http://example.com/path/to/site"/&gt; it fails to render in Firefox and IE but not Chrome. Anyone know why and a possible w...

Good portfolio projects

Hi, I am a recent graduate and am looking to start a career in web development. Its kind of a catch 22 at the moment as I have a fair bit of programming experience from university but not really in web development and to get a job in web development a portfolio is typically required. So, I am looking to start a building a few applicati...

.com/ VS .com in external links

When we give link of external sites then how we should give link? This http://www.sitename.com/ or this http://www.sitename.com Are both same? ...

What considerations should be made for a web app to be released on a cloud hosted system?

I have a web app that is primarily a WordPress app, but it pulls content from a Django app, simply by calling a service that uses Django models. My understanding of cloud computing is a bit vague. If the site needs to scale up with short notice, does the cloud provider (Amazon, Rackspace, whomever) simply spin up new instances (copies) ...

Combine CSS Attribute Selectors

Hi, is there a way to combine CSS2 Attribute Selectors like tr[id^="foo" AND id$="bar"], so it selects all <tr id="foo_something_bar"> but not <tr id="foo_something"> or <tr id="something_bar"> ...

A light PDF viewer inside a webpage

Hello, which free PDF viewers are available to directly show a PDF file inside a webpage? I don't want to use Adobe Reader integration because I don't like it. I tried with Google Docs Viewer and it works fine but doesn't resize as I resize the page.. I would like to know if something quite light that can also be easily resized accordi...

Map with political borders similar to google charts, "clickable" countries

Hi! I'd like to add a map of countries to my website where the user can choose a specific country by clicking on it. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/map_charts.html has the looks i want, but it's not possible to underlay the countries with links, afaik(Besides lacking pan/zoom, nice to have). The interactive map(Geo Map) ...

Google Chrome and (cache or memory leaks).

Hello All, I have a big problem with Google Chrome and its memory. My app is displaying to user several image charts and reloads them every 10s. In the interval i have code like that var image = new Image(); var src = 'myurl/image'+new Date().getTime(); image.onload = function() { document.getElementById('myimage').src = src; ...

Disabling Scrollbars in WebKit (flat frame mode)

Hello, I'm embedding WebKit in a Windows C++ Application. I'm using the Cairo port. It works fine. I'd like to disable the scrollbars that appear when there's more data that the client area can display. Like the iPhone, the iPhone does not have scrollbars, scrolling is implemented differently. How can I disable the scrollbars programa...

Choosing font size for a web form

I am building some Web forms with ms-access. For the most part the fidelity of the form inside of ms-access and the same form when published to the web and run from a web browser looks very good. However I the problem is with some list boxes. Here is a screen shot of the client form. And, then the same form when published to Access ...

What are the downside of not having an index.html file to some directories

Hi, I'm curious what are some effects/downside of not putting an index.html file to your directories (e.g images). I know when an index file is not present to a directory, files inside that directory are no longer private and will be visible to the browsers when point (eg yoursite.com/images/). Aside from that what are some big effects ...

Error logging/handling on application basis?

Hi everybody, We have a web server that we're about to launch a number of applications on. On the server-level we have managed to work out the error handling with the help of Hyperic to notify the person who is in charge in the event of a database/memcached server is going down. However, we are still in the need of handling those event...

Is Webhooks a style/pattern or a specification?

I've been reading about Webhooks and I'm trying to determine if it's a specification vs a style/pattern. By "specification" I mean that the implementation details, e.g. headers, payload and so on are well defined. By "style" or "pattern" I mean in the sense that REST is a style (as opposed to a spec) or a pattern which describes usage ...