web-development

Suggestions on User Experience books

I realize this type of question may have been asked before but I feel mine is more specific. Can you make some suggestions on user experience books that focus on web development and less so (if at all) on design? Edit: The only book I have so far is Steve Krug's "Don't make me think" ...

Can't run a Perl app

Although I can run test.cgi from the same location but app.cgi gives "Internal Server Error". I checked the permissions, chmoded 755 to everything. The app is located in domains root so the url will be domain.com/app.cgi This is the htaccess: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +ExecCGI IndexIgnore * DirectoryIndex app.cgi RewriteEn...

Prepend/Append don't Work (Opera, Safari, Chrome)

Camarades, I tried using the append and prepend (), but none of the controls work. Could anyone help me? In Internet Explorer and Firefox works. The Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;head&...

Simple JavaScript not working

Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? window.onload = initForm; function initForm() { var allTags = document.getElementsByTagName("*"); for(i=0; i<allTags.length; i++) { if (allTags[i].className.indexOf("textbox") > -1) { allTags[i].onFocus = fieldSelect; allTags[i].onBlur = fieldDeSelect; ...

How to use python on webserver for web pages

I have read in the documentation that there are 4 or 5 ways in which i can python for web pages. Like With CGI Mod_python : mod_python does have some problems. Unlike the PHP interpreter, the Python interpreter uses caching when executing files, so changes to a file will require the web server to be restarted FastCGI and SCGI mod_wsgi...

Is an all white background appropriate for a web game?

I have seen lots of great sites that use all white pages (Stack Overflow?) without having the content column set against a different color background. I am designing a web game and was wondering if the all white (or solid color) is the way to go or if having a content column against a backdrop is better. If its a "it depends" answer, ...

Is practically Progressive enhancement and Graceful degradation same thing?

Is basically and practically Progressive enhancement and Graceful degradation same thing? ...

Why background color is changed when hovering on .gif images?

But this issue doesn't exist for .jpg images, why? ...

save screenshot image to file in Flex 4

I need the user of my Flex application to be able to save a snapshot of part of the UI to a local jpg file. I got the screenshot part down - can generate an image out of any given control. However, the only way I see to let the user save the image locally is to send to my server which would return it with the appropriate Content-Disposit...

Deployment to shared host without SSH (PHP)

Hello, I have a Web-Application running on Shared Hosting. I need to Update the Project and I don't have SSH. All the Best-Practice-Solutions so far for SHared Hosting included SSH. So does anyone have experiences with deployment without SSH, not using manual uploading with FTP? --dazz edit: My dev environment is WinXP with XAMPP, I ...

reduce http requests by saving images in database?

Would it make sense to improve pageload speed by serving smaller images from the database rather than make multiple HTTP requests given that the website is PHP driven? I'm thinking of smaller page design elements, buttons, thumbnails for galleries etc. ...

confusion about Certificates

Hi I have WCF REST web service hosted by IIS, it works on HTTPS, I generate Certificate on IIS and assign Https to a port I generate cer through IE browser. I create a test application and regardless Add a client certificate or not or even add a wrong certificate the connection take place and a I get correct response. I am wondering h...

MAMP and joomla related query

I had installed MAMP on my Macbook but i forgot the password. How to create new installation of MAMP. I dont mind deleting the database. How to integrate joomla with MAMP? Which are the best bulletein boards for joomla? ...

browser extension to replace JavaScript file on a live site for testing

I'm looking for a browser extension (Firefox, Chrome) allowing to replace a Javascript file on a live Web site to do some testing/hacking. Basically, it should take a URL and load another one instead (locally or on a HTTP development server). Any idea? ...

What's with all the SharePoint hype?

SharePoint has been getting a lot of hype these days. There are contracts/job postings all over the place looking for SharePoint experience. There seems to be a big push on Web Part development, which is all well and good, but now I'm also hearing that entire web applications will be hosted within SharePoint. That sounds like it could e...

Open Source, web based spreadsheet app with formulas

I am looking for an open source spreadsheet application to stick into my web page. The most important feature I am searching for is formulas. Specifically, I need to be able to put in a cell which calculates the total of the contents of other specified cells. I've found some basic examples like Nitobi and ExtJs Extender, but they don't ...

Looking for some great example web applications to learn real-world development techniques

I've done a bunch of web development with JSP/J2EE and some ASP.NET. Nevertheless, I still feel like I'm catching up with the web 2.0 stuff that relies heavily on JavaScript. I have two questions: I'm looking for great samples of web applications to learn development techniques. I prefer to look at real-world examples (i.e. someth...

Display price in correct currency depending on location of user

I have a DotNetNuke site which lets me add pages. I can edit the HTML of the page. On the page I need to display a price in one of three currencies depending on the user's location. Those currencies are USD, GBP, and EUR. The price in each currency fixed, so there is no need to do any currency conversion. Additionally I'd like to displ...

Is it bad practice to add properties to DOM nodes?

JavaScript lets you add arbitrary properties and methods to any object, including DOM nodes. Assuming the property was well namespaced (something like _myLib_propertyName) so that it would be unlikely to create a conflict, are there any good reasons not to stash data in DOM nodes? Are there any good use cases for doing so? I imagine do...

.htaccess question in association with codeigniter setup.

So I am fairly noobish at .htaccess rewriting. Currently this is my setup for my codeigniter setups: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] This works fine when I am rewriting EVERYTHING to th...