Some users are reporting that my site is too slow And i think background images in css might be a possible culprit I have a site that uses a custom build system to concatenate all css, compress them ( yui compressor ) , make css sprites automatically ( smartsprites ) and I end up with a 9kb CSS for the whole page, this includes all cs...
Imagine a user has just posted data to your web application and you want to re-display the current page with a message about their success or failure. This gets complicated. If the data is valid and the user is expecting html, you want to issue a redirect so that refreshing doesn't cause them to re-post. You want to redirect to the re...
Is there a standard or accepted way to recover from a page refresh in an Ajax web application? My interest now lies mainly in a web app with a Java (JSP/Servlet) Back end. My page is initially rendered from a JSP and then the user progressed through the interface using javascript events. Is there a design pattern which covers this, I'm...
I have a somewhat expensive server-side operation that produces an image and some associated text metadata about that image. My web page will display both. The image and its data are fetched with AJAX calls. On the server side, it is possible to produce the image and the metadata at the same time. How can I transfer (and display) both t...
Before everyone groans and says: "What another one?" This is (initially at least) a private one with about 100 users very bespoked to our needs. Are there any existing application frameworks that can be used and easily reshaped into our requirements or if not, what's the best choice of tech for each tier? ...
How long do you warranty your software against bugs, defects, or security issues after final acceptance by the client? I've used a 90 day window for our web development projects in the past, after which it becomes a time and materials billing scenario. I'm curious what others are doing. ...
I have a web page which links to an excel 2007 worksheet. It is a .xls file and not .xlsx file. When I click on the link I get the usual dialog box to either open/save the excel file. On clicking 'Open', I get the following warning message- The file you are trying to open, 'filename.xls' is in a different format than specified by...
When defining something like a background image URL in a CSS file, when using a relative URL, where is it relative to? For example: /stylesheets/base-styles.css: div#header { background-image: url(images/header-background.jpg); } If I include this style-sheet into different documents via <link ... /> will the relative URL in t...
Goal: simple browser app, for navigating files on a web server, in a tree view. Background: Building a web site as a learning experience, w/ Apache, mod_python, Python code. (No mod_wsgi yet.) What tools should I learn to write the browser tree? I see JavaScript, Ajax, neither of which I know. Learn them? Grab a JS example from t...
The code below: <asp:HyperLink ID="Image1_Link" runat="server" Text='<% "< img src=" + PhotoGalleryBaseUrl + Eval("image_file_name") + ">" %>'> </asp:HyperLink> Image Size: <asp:Label ID="image_sizeLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("image_size") %>'> </asp:Label><br /> Renders like this in Chrome and IE: And renders like this i...
The goal: Allow user to turn on and off different layers of data; and to dynamically pull the data for the current extent from a database on map move event. This works fine and good if you hard code your VEShapeLayers as done here. My list of layers is coming from a database, I have everything working the way I want except that when I ...
How to join multiple event handlers in Javascript as in the following scenario : onClick="doSomething();" onKeyUp="doSomething();" onLoad="doSomething();" ...
I want to have the addthis widget available for my users, but I want to lazy load it so that my page loads as quickly as possible. However, after trying it via a script tag and then via my lazy loading method, it appears to only work via the script tag. In the obfuscated code, I see something that looks like it's dependent on the DOMCont...
I'm looking for guidance on good practices when it comes to return errors from a REST API. I'm working on a new API so I can take it any direction right now. My content type is XML at the moment, but I plan to support JSON in future. I am now adding some error cases, like for instance a client attempts to add a new resource but has exce...
Hi, I am looking for a tool that can generate class diagram from JavaScript code. Similar to the ones for C++ and Java. Is there any? Thanks ...
Suggest me a better way to do it. I would like to show the array result in the horizontal manner. Column1 | Column 2 | Column 3 3 | 7 | 10 now it shows in vertical manner as follows Column1 | Column 2 | Column 3 3 7 10 Array Result : Stored in $result variable and assigned in ...
hey again stackoverflowers I'm migrating a website from old ASP (in VBScript) and there's certain stuuf I have to iFrame as to keep the old stuff working inside a new container. on the aspx page I have an iFrame with the runat="server" attribute to make it available in the code behind file. <iframe id="frmLoader" runat="server" scrol...
I'm building a website and I'd like to avoid using asp.net membership. I want to consider some alternatives before I decide to write this code from scratch. Are there any open source projects that tackle the authentication problem? note: I need user/pass auth (can't use Open Id). ...
This is actually a follow up on my previous question (link) I've created the HttpHandler and it works fine for now, I'll add flexibility by using the querystring and session to point the post I'm making in the right direction. The next question is as follows. Now that I have the old page iframed as it should be, there's still the trou...
Anyone has any suggestions of a framework to help me create an Igoogle/pageflakes/netvibes like application using ruby on rails. I tried using apotomo for a few days, but couldn't make it work at all. If not possible to make using ruby on rails, do u have any suggestions on what to use? Thanks, ...