Given an small Excel VBA app (single form, small amount of records saved in single worksheet) that runs quite happily locally on the workstation, what would be the easiest and quickest way of providing the same app on the web? Re-writing the app is an option but I thought it was worth checking if there was a quicker solution out there. ...
Our web site (running Rails) freezes IE6 nearly every time. The same code, deployed on a different server, does not freeze IE6. Where and how should we start tracking this down? ...
In a related question, I asked about Web Development. I came across something called OpenLaszlo yesterday and thought it looked interesting for doing some website development. The site has a bunch of good information on it and they've got some nice tutorials and such, but being a total novice (as far as web development goes), I'm wonde...
I have a xsl file that is grabbing variables from xml and they seem to not be able to see each other. I know it is a scope issue, I just do not know what I am doing wrong. <xsl:template match="one"> <xsl:variable name="varOne" select="@count" /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="two"> <xsl:if test="$varOne = 'Y'"> <xsl:value-...
There are lots of web application frameworks available these days, for pretty much every language out there. In your experience, what are their strengths, weaknesses, and unique features? Assuming the luxury of choice, what factors would lead you to consider one over another other? I'm most interested in people's direct experience wit...
Sometimes we deploy applications behind customer firewall and we need read only access to their DB for debugging issues as sometimes their IT people are not SQL savvy. We want to bundle our application with some web based application that will expose the database and allow us to fire adhoc SQL queries and show their output in HTML table....
I'm confused by the discussion and advancement both of a new version of HTML and a new version of XHTML. Are they competitors? If so, what is likeliest to be the adopted future of the web? If not, what is the differing non-competing purpose for each? Are we due to have a BluRay/HDVD battle here? Is there ultimately any clear decision? I...
Is there any free set of forms, icons, styles, images, etc for building web-based admin interfaces? If yes, which is the best? ...
I'm looking for an internal representation format for text, which would support basic formatting (font face, size, weight, indentation, basic tables, also supporting the following features: Bidirectional input (Hebrew, Arabic, etc.) Multi-language input (i.e. UTF-8) in same text field Anchored footnotes (i.e. a superscript number that'...
What is the best way to detect if a user leaves a web page? The onUnload javascript method doesn't work every time (the HTTP request takes longer than the time required to terminate the browser). Creating will probably be blocked by current browsers. I'm also using Silverlight, so Silverlight solutions are welcome. ...
OK, probably best to give an example here of what I mean. Imagine a web based forum system, where the user authentication is done by some external method, which the system is aware of. Now, say for example, a user enters the URL for a thread that they do not have access to. For this should I return a 403 (Forbidden), letting the user k...
Hi All, I have a website laid out in tables. (a long mortgage form) in each table cell is one HTML object. (text box, radio buttons, etc) What can I do so when each table cell is "tabbed" into it highlights the cell with a very light red (not to be obtrusive, but tell the user where they are)? ...
I have a web service API. Some calls return objects containing text fields with information provided by the user. From both a design and a security standpoint, what are the downsides to returning null in those fields when no information has been provided? Is there a clear advantage to always returning an empty string instead, other then ...
Is it possible for a web server to know which ^type^ of device request has been received from? For example, can a create a website which shows different contents if request came from a computer (firefox) and something different if it came from iPhone? ...
Hi all, I am working with web Dynpro java.. I have created a stateless session bean wherin i have created business methods for inserting and retrieving records from my dictionary table. My table has two fields of java.sql.Date type The web service that i have created is working fine for insertRecords(). Bt for showRecords() i am not a...
Hello, I'm using the mechanize module to execute some web queries from Python. I want my program to be error-resilient and handle all kinds of errors (wrong URLs, 403/404 responsese) gracefully. However, I can't find in mechanize's documentation the errors / exceptions it throws for various errors. I just call it with: self.browser...
I would like to embed a light weight web server in a Windows application developed in .NET. The web server has to support PHP. I have looked at Cassini, but it seems it is ASP.NET only. Any idea? ...
hi there :P can you suggest how to create a test enviroment to simulate various types of bandwidths and traffic in a web app ? Or maybe a program open source wich does this against localhost ? I think this is a very important subject when programming web apps but it is not a usual topic, the only way i can imagine to create such kind o...
iMacros is a very nice tool which allows to authomatically fill HTML forms and extract content, includes cycles and many other features. The problem is that it is quite tricky to make it extracting content properly. For example, I have failed to extract all London-to-Tokio flight prices for all the dates between 1/10/08 to 1/12/08 to fin...
Is there a programming language suitable for building web applications, that is compiled, strongly-typed, and isn't ASP.NET? I thought of using Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/), but I wonder if there are any other alternatives. (If the language and framework are open-source, that's a big plus!) ...