web-development

Can I forget about IE6 ?

I'm a consultant working on several websites and it has been asked that I make sure my work is compatible with IE6. Since Microsoft advised not to use it anymore and that an average of 6% of the users are using IE6: can I advise my client to forget about IE6 ? Edit: The website is consumer oriented on the internet. I don't think IE6 i...

Drupal six or seven for a new job platform - or a different framework?

For a client we are going to build a platform for specialized artists where customers can find contractors. This involves building a job board, logins and profile pages for different roles, a quite complex admin interface for managing and charging the deals. We have now done the wireframes and specification, but are still not sure about ...

jQuery bookmarklet for selectors

It should work like this: Fire a bookmarklet Select the first element by clicking Select the second element It outputs a series of jQuery calls which would allow selecting the second element given a reference to a first element (i.e. using relative positions of the two elements in a DOM tree). Is there such a bookmarklet (or browser ...

What is a secure way to pass login and password from a client to a server during authentication?

I've just set up a proxy and run all my request through that proxy. I investigated several different applications: they pass login and password pair raw, i.e. I can grab them from POST-request parameter. How should it be implemented to make it more secure? (I haven't investigated gmail and facebook yet, but I think they don't have thi...

Architecture: MVC based web-apps around a REST interface

I'm not sure how to phrase my question.... From different sources I pick up the idea that it makes sense to build web applications around a REST interface. A REST service could execute some controller logic (validations, database-access, etc) and then return a (static) *.xhtml resource. Combined with a decent javascript framework, thi...

How to WEB 2.0 sites get first few members ?

How to WEB 2.0 sites get first few members, like a new site comes up for "discussing books" or "renting apartments" or any thing for that matter. So if some marketing is able to pull in some visitors, all first few visitors will see blank data bases no existing info offered. wont they carry a bad name and never come back again ... ?? ...

Are there good reasons not to target Flash 10 for a browser-based game?

There's clearly a bunch of new stuff in Flash 10, I'm seeing a bunch in the Graphics class so far. Struggling a bit to reconcile it with what I know already but it looks useful - render lists and 3D transforms, etc - however I wondered if there are good arguments for targeting Flash 9 since I can definitely manage without all the new stu...

GWT, LAMP or a Framework? choosing the right technology for a web application

Hi all, after scanning stackoverflow I stil could not find a good answer to a simple question: you want to develop a SaaS business app that has all the typical features: reports, forms, user administration etc. You don't want a CMS but develop it from scratch. what technologies would you choose? at first glance, many of you would say ...

how can i limit my django foreign key selection by a property stored in the django session

i have a small application i am implementing with django and i'm having a slight challenge. I'm trying to limit the queryset for my relationships within my application by a particular property. Now the catch is, the exact value of the property isn't known until the user logs into the application. an example is limiting a set of comments ...

Advice for building simple bar chart, but with custom styling

Hi all, I have some data that is displayed in a bar chart, using Google's Visualization API. Was simple enough until designers redesigned it... Now it appears to be something that is beyond what Google can help me with. Given the attached mockup (and note the finer details like reflection and gradients!)- how would you go about buildin...

How to retrieve information from website(first login using POST and cookies) using windows 7 desktop widget.

I need to build a Win 7 desktop widget, that would display a single value from a certain web page. To view the page you need to login first(with POST form), get session id, and proceed to the page. Then i'll download it and parse, no problem here. I also probably need cookies support for this. So, are there any tools for this in the Wind...

How can I automate website testing with Perl?

Possible Duplicate: Integration Testing for a Web App I've recently delved into Perl and I'd like to learn how to automate web site testing. To that end I'd appreciate answers to the following: What modules from CPAN should I look into? Is there something similar to Watir (I know there's a Windows only port of it in Perl)? I...

gridview dynamic working refernce needed, by code c#. not design view

searched the asp.net site a lot of use full material regrding handling of evnts, and adding things from design view, "i need some sites which show adding thngs and working with gridview by using code c#" there is scattered documentation, am a beginner cant see so much, any particular exact documentation site? ...

Scroll scrollbar in browser without using window.scrollBy

Hi All. I am trying to create a board game using html/css/javascript to be played on the iphone. My board is a 2d grid designed using a table with 128 elements both in height and width and each element is 128x128px. I want the game to start in the center of the board. That is the vertical and horizontal scrollbars roughly in the center o...

Efficiently removing naughty words from users comments

I have an ASP.NET app that accepts users comments and them in a SQL database. I want to make sure that I weed out any "naughty" words so I can keep my app respectable. Problem is that I'm finding there are LOTS of these words. ;> My question is, what's the most efficient way to do this processing? Should I have a table in SQL and wri...

CMS Recommendations for Auto Dealership

Hello everyone. This question was asked here but there wasn't a positive answer. Anyways, I am trying to help a friend build a car dealer web page like Fantasy Junction. I think they use CakePHP plus jQuery lightBox plugin. So far I am thinking of either ModX CMS or Expression Engine. My friend and I are not web developers, so something ...

jQueryUI dialog box height grows too tall

I have a jQueryUI dialog box that loads its content the moment someone opens it using the "open" event to initiate the $('#dialogDiv').load() call. Works great except the dialog box grows extremely tall if there's a lot of content being loaded. What I want is to limit the height. The maxHeight jQueryUI dialog option would seem to work...

separate layout from templates in perl cgi::application

I am building a perl cgi::application using html::template. I am using 7-8 different templates having the same layout - header, footer, left column etc. How can I separate this html out of the template files into a single layout file. What perl modules do I need in addition to cgi::app and html::template. Thanks ...

HTML5 streaming video - is it possible?

Hi. Is it possible to use HTML5's video tag and connect it to an RMTP stream? Thanks. ...

using CefRegisterExtension of delphichromiumembedded component on Borland C++ ?

Hi I compiled the delphichromiumembedded using Borland Studio 2006 (c++) , and tried to use the CefRegisterExtension that in the ceflib.dll , I translate the Delphi code of the Execute function to C++ but seems that this doesn't work , I did it using the GetInterface of DelphiInterface Class. here is a sample code , if somebody know ...