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What screen resolution should my web app target for an average non-technical users?

I noticed StackOverflow appears to be targeting screen resolution widths of 1024px or more. I also checked Amazon, NBC, MSN, & AOL which target more lay users, and they all appear to be targeting the same width. Is 1024px the current recommended width for web apps targeting the largest cross-section of users who use default monitor res...

Comparison between Corona, Phonegap, Titanium

I am a web developer and I want to move my web products to iPhone. One of the products is like Google Maps: show map on the phone screen, you can drag or resize the map and view some information that we add to the map. I know there are some technologies that enables you to use HTML, CSS and Javascript to develop native iPhone apps. I'v...

How to config IIS in Windows XP SP2

Hi everyone, new to IIS. I have two questions: After installing IIS, I straightly wen to my browser and typed in http://127.0.0.1. But a user name and password dialog box pops up and I have no idea what to type in. Why IIS asks this information? How can I remove this asking. I want to put a web service under IIS. The web service is wri...

Windows mobile client for ASMX Web Service

I try make simple Windows mobile client for web service. The web method only add two integer. I add reference on proxy and System.Web.Service. But it finish with this error : The type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Web...

What is "vanilla web interface"?

Someone told me to look into "vanilla web interface". I have googled it, but didn't find any relevant result, at least that was I thought. What is it? Thanks. ...

Is there a site for testing?

Hello. Say one's writing a "browser" and wants to test it on many pages with broken encoding, invalid HTML, missing meta tags or headers etc. An obvious solution is to get a big pile of URLs and test the application on each of them, which takes a lot of time and doesn't guarantee that the first 1000 urls were ok, while the next 100 will ...

Android WSDL/SOAP service client

Hello everyone! I have some web services that uses WSDL/SOAP for communication. Specifically, I am using PHP and Nusoap to make them. How can I use these web services on Android? I am going to get a new Android phone soon, so I need to know. It is easy to do it with Windows Mobile and Visual Studio. Thanks ...

Creating Excel or Excel compatible Spreadsheets on the server side in C#

I'd like to make server-side excel compatible spreadsheets that maybe use OpenXML or a structured data format. I've used Office Interop before to generate Excel spreadsheets, but those apps run on a PC that has office installed. For this web project I'm building, the server doesn't have office installed (and they don't want to buy it)....

What Scala web-frameworks are available?

Hello! I've just started learning Scala and the first thing I'm going to implement is a tiny web-application. I've been using Erlang for the last year to implement server-side software, but I've never wrote web-applications before. It will be a great experience. Here is my question: are there web-frameworks for Scala except for Lift? ...

Web Services using J2ME and Java Version 1.4

Howdy, We are trying to program an MFP (Multi-function-printer) to communicate to our backend using Web Services. We are sending large images so using MTOM is important. Since we are dealing with a very constrained environment I would rather not use Axis. Does anyone know of another smaller WS library that will work with JDK1.4, or wou...

What's the easiest way in VB.NET to parse this XML into objects?

What's the easiest way in VB.NET to parse this XML? Here's an example of the full source: View Source XML I believe that the XML can be read directly into a class structure that matches the XML's structure. Let's take a bit of the XML from the above example, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - <kml xmlns="http://earth.goog...

problem in calling (Jax-ws) web service form another Jax-ws webserice.

I am i have one Logging web service in my project which gets called form another web service. I am calling a logging web service using a wrapper method which points to the web service method. When i am accessing it using client-webservice structure i am not getting any exception. But the problem is when i am accessing it form web serv...

ASP.Net Web Site Administration Tool Link

I'd like to include the ASP.net Web Admin tool in a web site when a user logs in as an local manager of the web site, this will be on the LAN and not public. I can obtain the link in Visual Studio ie http://localhost:54397/asp.netwebadminfiles/default.aspx?applicationPhysicalPath=D:\DATA\Projects\WebIV\WebSite\&amp;applicationUrl=/WebS...

Server generated printing printing to printer closest to user

We have a SAAS application where reporting and other print jobs are generated on our application servers and then sent to CUPS print queues. The queue prints to printers at the client sites via IP printing; so far everything works fine. However, we have a new requirement with a new customer. They want a print job to print to the pri...

Take a screenshot of a web page in Java

Is there a free tool that can read given webpage and take a screenshot of it? ...

Handling json response error on iPhone

I'm using json-framework on iPhone to connect to a web service built in asp.net. Sometimes asp.net throws errors on the web service. But I can't find a way to handle them on the iPhone as they doesn't seem to be recognised as errors by NSURLConnection. When looking at the response data it shows the error in json format, how can I in an e...

How do you secure and meter the web services you share with your business partners?

I'm looking for ideas on how to restrict access to and log calls for an API we're delivering for business partners to interface with our Customer Care application. Should we create usernames and passwords for our external partners just as we would our own employees? Is there some kind of snap-in layer for .Net that can manage access rest...

Communicate with backend job from web server or web page

I have an "appliance" (for lack of better description) running linux. Currently I ssh into the box to launch jobs. This isn't friendly enough for my users, so I'm putting together a simple web UI to launch the script. A job runs for anywhere from 10 seconds to several hours. The web UI needs to reflect the status of the job. I've solve...

dynamic creation of web service using parameter from database

Hi, i faced one problem here : i need do create a servlet that can dynamic create web service and the web service parameter is store at database. So each time i call a specify web service, i will get the parameter of that web service and dynamically generate the code at the servlet. For example: i have 3 different web service, and one ...

Multithreaded stress tests fail

I am doing a stress test of a web service by running many threads of the same process, but the second thread always stops in the middle of running without throwing an exception. How do you figure out what’s wrong? ...