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How to Indicate Required Fields?

What is the best way to indicate required fields? Is a red asterisk beside each field's label enough? Do you also need to explain with words what a red asterisk means? What if all of the fields are required? Should you still have a red asterisk? ...

Can an IE8 Accelerator be made to launch a process?

I want to create an IE8 Accelerator that will launch Remote Desktop (mstsc) with the hostname being the selected text. But the accelerators I've seen only direct the browser to URLs. Can an Accelerator launch mstsc.exe? ...

Looking for downloader web solution

I'm looking for a web solution that will provide a web page/application that will let a user download our installer exe (all required files are contained in the exe) such that they can pause the download and resume it at any time. It's a 1.4 GB file, and currently our only distribution model (we are on a 0 budget). Any advice? Our end-...

Easiest way to get the absolute path of directory from browser

I allow my users to upload files from a directory. I use SWFUpload so that they can upload multiple files easily. However, I need to get the absolute path of the directory from which they are uploading. A little research tells me that it can't be done in plain HTML/Javascript or in Flash. Java applets seem to support this, so that's wh...

download web page data in objective-c iphone ?

How you get web page data and set the data to string ? somthing like : NSString *str = GetWebPageData("www.mysite.com/webpage.html"); in the str, i will see "html my web page html" for example ...

Grab HTML code from web

I'm working on a project for fun but i want to grab just the html code from a website which I will later have to extract just the links. I've been googling for a few minutes and I haven't found anything that does what I want specifically (just the text). ...

IPhone Web App reurn to app after call

Hi I have created a web app that produces a list of items to buy, It also gives a link to call the shop using a Tel: link to its phone number. I want to stay on the app page during the call so the user can read the page out to the shop Is that possible? ...

HTML layout: Title and Button

I'm to implement a fullscreen layout for a Web app according to custom specs. I've got most of it under control but there's one part I have some trouble with. To economize on space in an otherwise already crowded GUI, a "Log out" button should go into the title row rather than elsewhere. The title row, of course, contains a title. The b...

Post form data to external url + curl

Hello all, I have this form that I am trying to use to post data to an external url. I do have some very basic knowlegde of using php curl. So far if I use this code that I have written: <?php if ($_POST['request_callback']) { $customer_name = cleaninput($_REQUEST['customer_name'],"text"); $debtor_id = cleaninput(...

Becoming a Web Designer: CMS, or by hand

I'm biting the bullet and becoming a Web Designer, there are just too many good opportunities out there. I'm a professional SW engineer, so I want approach this correctly. So far I'm fairly good at HTML/CSS/Javascript all completely by hand. I'm also good with jQuery and Django with mySql. I've made some cool sites but it takes TOO L...

passing paramters using ksoap2 to .net web service, always passes nulls (empty) values

Hi, I'm having a problem in calling .net web services from android using ksoap2. The call is executed just fine without parameters, but when I pass paramters of any type, the web service just recieves a null value. I tried everything possible but no luck so far. I hope someone can help, The client side code is: public static boolean tem...

Loading cross domain XML with Javascript using a hybrid iframe-proxy/xsl/jsonp concept?

On our site www.foo.com we want to download and use http://feeds.foo.com/feed.xml with Javascript. We'll obviously use Access-Control but for browsers that don't support it we are considering the following as a fallback: On www.foo.com, we set document.domain, provide a callback function and load the feed into a (hidden) iframe: docume...

PHP: Need to Expire Sessions for my webapp, when back button is pressed

We are working on a mission critical web application, we would like to expire the application's session out when a user presses the browser back button. Please help me with my problem. Thanks in advance. ...

Is there any downsides to using GIF as format of all images and pictures on website ?

I noticed when I saved my menu background image from jpg to gif that gif takes almost one fourth of the size that jpg does. jpg = 25kb gif = 7kb Is there any downsides to using gif? Its GIF 256 colors BTW. NOT interlaced. Not transparent. Just want to be sure! Thanks ...

soap and web browser

greetings, i have a simple question. I have some page that i use for SAML Authority certificate.: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/trust/RST/Issue the coleague of mine asked me why is this "dead link". Well, I told him that it is a soap protocol and it is not a good idea to communicate with the front end user using web browser. B...

ASP.NET whitespace or %20 in URL

Good day, everyone. I found strange behavior within ASP.NET engine when it handles non-existent URL with whitespace. When we have normal URL like this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged1/c%23 we get normal custom 404 page as was intended by developers (if any). But here's the bug. Just add some white space like this:http:...

How does a desktop application get information back from a website?

I'm a desktop application developer. I'm creating a basic website from which to sell an application I've written, and learning some web tech along the way, but haven't learnt that much yet (my chosen CMS - Textpattern - has saved me learning much PHP so far). I want my desktop application to call my website and say "I'm version x.x.x.x"...

Preferred Method of PHP Byte Encoding

I am writing a web app for a company that wants to host the app on its servers. I want to protect the source code for two reasons. The first is the obvious closed source business model. The second is source code protection. I don't want them to be able to edit the source code (They aren't competent). I've looked into things like the Zend...

i want to pass the array of request to web service at once...it it possible?

I am working with some web services and I want to pass the array of request to the web service at once and the output should be returned once for the whole array of request. For example, let's say I am requesting the city details by city name. I want to build the array of city names and pass it to the web service and get all the detail...

Build a application form a web.

I have developed a Windows game application form C#. It contains 3 DLLs and one EXE. But one DLL is need to build time to time, because it contains an XML file and I need to change that time to time and embedded in to that DLL. After building that DLL I'm publishing and deploying though ClickOnce Deployment. For better convenient I decid...