In my last job we ended up rewriting the complete ASP.NET stack (forms, controls, validation, postback handling, ajax library etc...) - the reason I was given was that the ASP.NET controls were not accessible enough, not were any of the third party controls that were assessed for the project. Can anyone point me to good accessible ASP.N...
Hi there. I'm using Struts 2. I'd like to return from an Action to the page which invoked it. Say I'm in page x.jsp, I invoke Visual action to change CSS preferences in the session; I want to return to x.jsp rather than to a fixed page (i.e. home.jsp) Here's the relevant struts.xml fragment: <action name="Visual" class="it.___.w...
I have a fairly standards compliant XHTML+CSS site that looks great on all browsers on PC and Mac. The other day I saw it on FF3 on Linux and the letter spacing was slightly larger, throwing everything out of whack and causing unwanted wrapping and clipping of text. The CSS in question has font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,...
I need to automate a process involving a website that is using a login form. I need to capture some data in the pages following the login page. I know how to screen-scrape normal pages, but not those behind a secure site. Can this be done with the .NET WebClient class? How would I automatically login? How would I keep logged in for t...
I'm begining a new webapp in Python. I've narrowed my choices down to Django and Pylons. What are the pros/cons of each? ...
What is the Javascript to scroll to the top when a button/link/etc. . . clicked? ...
I have a REST data service where I want to allow the users to create new items with HTTP PUT using different formats like json,xml,csv. Now I'm a little unsure how to best handle the format specification in the url: PUT -> /ressource/ID/json PUT -> /ressource/ID/xml or PUT -> /ressource/ID?format=json So what is the best way ...
I would like display something more meaningful that animated gif while users upload file to my web application. What possibilities do I have? Edit: I am using .Net but I don't mind if somebody shows me platform agnostic version. ...
Most of the work I do is with what could be considered enterprise Web applications. These projects have large budgets, longer timelines (from 3-12 months), and heavy customizations. Because as developers we have been touting the idea of the Web as the next desktop OS, customers are coming to expect the software running on this "new OS" t...
I have a site I made real fast that uses floats to display different sections of content. The floated content and the content that has an additional margin both appear fine in FF/IE but on safari one of the divs is completely hidden. I've tried switching to padding and position:relative but nothing has worked for me. If I take out the co...
I'm evaluating and looking at using CherryPy for a project that's basically a javascript front-end from the client-side (browser) that talks to a Python web service on the back-end. So, I really need something fast and lightweight on the back-end that I can implement using Python that then speaks to the PostgreSQL db via an ORM (JSON to ...
Hey there, I found some informations about controlling IIS 5.1 from command line via adsutil.vbs (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/d3df4bc9-0954-459a-b5e6-7a8bc462960c.mspx?mfr=true). The utility is available at c:\InetPub\AdminScripts. The utility throw only errors like the following: ErrNumbe...
I'm building a Django project that needs search functionality, and until there's a django.contrib.search, I have to choose a search app. So, which is the best? By "best" I mean... easy to install / set up has a Django- or at least Python-friendly API can perform reasonably complex searches Here are some apps I've heard of, please sug...
I want to test the web pages I create in all the modern versions of Internet Explorer (6, 7 and 8 beta) but I work mainly on a Mac and often don't have direct access to a PC. ...
I'm working on a web-based contest which is supposed to allow anonymous users to vote, but we want to prevent them from voting more than once. IP based limits can be bypassed with anonymous proxies, users can clear cookies, etc. It's possible to use a Silverlight application, which would have access to isolated storage, but users can sti...
I want to create dynamic content based on this. I know it's somewhere, as web analytics engines can get this data to determine how people got to your site (referrer, search terms used, etc.), but I don't know how to get at it myself. ...
I have a start of a webapp that I wrote without using the Object Oriented features of PHP. I don't really know if it is worth it to go back and rewrite the parts I have finished. Is object oriented PHP worth rewriting all or part of a decent working app? ...
By default the webjump hotlist has the following which I use quite often: M-x webjump RET Google M-x webjump RET Wikipedia How can I add 'Stackoverflow' to my list? ...
I was listening to a recent episode of Hanselminutes where Scott Hanselman was discussing accessibility in web applications and it got me thinking about accessibility in my own applications. We all understand the importance of semantic markup in our web applications as it relates to accessibility but what about other simple enhancements...
I've got an old, legacy VB6 application that uses the DHTML editing control as an HTML editor. The Microsoft DHTML editing control, a.k.a. DHTMLEd, is probably nothing more than an IE control using IE's own native editing capability internally. I'd like to modify the app to implement smart quotes like Word. Specifically, " is replaced w...