web-development

Future With HTML5 & CSS3

Hello, How much the HTML5 and CSS3 are going to elevate the time and effort used by both designers and developers using their current incarnations? Will it be a child's play? ...

How does JavaScript `Date` object determine the locale of the users browser?

I am trying to understand how the JavaScript running in the various browsers determines the locale that will be used by the JavaScript Date object when using the method toLocaleString. I have changed the language and locale settings of my system through windows control panel and I have also changed every browsers language settings to t...

How could i select folder or file from the asp.net web application?

Hello, I have an ASP.NET web application and I need to put data from the web page to the output text file. I would like to give user an ability to select the folder where the file will be saved. For example, when the user clicks on the 'Browse' button the select folder dialog should appear. Is it possible to implement such thing in th...

Javascript asynchronous calls stepping on one another

I'm using AHAH (as outlined here http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah) to make two calls to populate HTML on a page. The calls happen after the document is ready and are fired off one after another. The result, every time, is the first call gets overwritten with the last calls response. So I'll have two of the same chunks of HTML on th...

How to correctly debug web application on local IIS 7.5 with VS 2010 Beta2?

I'm sort of new to developing Asp.net webapplication projects while running them on a local IIS. Till now I used the 'Use Visual Studio Development Server' option. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Edit: less complex sample code Following code sample: List<string> _list = new List<string>(); _list.Add("asd"); ...

Most innovative way to config a live application.

Forget trivial apps that have half a dozen users and a dozen options, what ui do you think is most effective at letting the admin get the job done. Some interesting technologies which though have other applications might include: AREXX - "live" application scripting. GUIs - Point and click, a bit troublesome when one has lots of repeti...

how can i call from my website to mobile or landline phones. (in PHP,Flash, ..)

Hi all, I wish to call from mywebsite to mobile phone, how do i implement in PHP or Flash. Is it possible in PHP, flash, or any other technologies. ...

What is difference between html and htm?

Hello, Another newbie question. I just wanted to know what exactly is the difference between html and htm extensions we see for webpages. Are they same? and if so then why two extensions for the same purpose? Thanks ...

Code outline for auto-update pages

I want to mess around with realtime information, and there is a pretty standard functionality that I want to duplicate: It occurs here on SO when you're on a single-question view, typing your answer, and an alert pops up top saying "there are 3 news answers, click to show" It also occurs on Twitter "There are 5 new tweets in this searc...

Hidden post input, or get variable?

Let's say you're making a blog application, and you're trying to decide how to build the comment form for a particular post. Would you put the blog_post_id as a hidden form field in the comment form, or would you set the form action to post_comment?blog_post_id=<id> and then grab it from the GET variable instead? Why? My 2 cent...

How to overcome IE7 padding issues?

IE7 is driving me crazy. I know is a small thing, but I don't know what else to google, and I know I am missing something very small. <div id="spotlightHolder"> <div id="spotlight"> <div id="spotlightMessage"> <h1 id="spotlightTitle">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</h1> <p id="spotlightDescription">Lorem ipsum dolor, con...

Is it possible to Drag-and-Drop images between Web sites (applications)?

There are a number of questions on stackoverflow about drag-and-drop but I can't see that any relate to this question specifically. Question: Is it possible to drag-and-drop an image from one Web application (or site) to another Web application (not the same window etc.)? I'm not looking for specific technologies that may help one achi...

PHP: Saving POST reponse to a file

Hi, I am having a problem with saving a file from a response to a POST request. I am using Google Charts API to create a chart using a POST request. I am then trying to save the result as an image. I am following the API documentation as described here: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/post_requests.html Here is my code: $file...

for a newbie,what is the best web app to develop firstly?

Possible Duplicate: Small projects ideas to teach beginners web developent using ASP.Net I am learning about technical skills to become a web developer.But i don't know how i should start to develop a web application. ...

Tool which will generate x,y coordinates (from a simple drawing)

Following on from this question (thanks for all the help): What web technology to opt for to offer interactive colouring? I guess I need a tool (maybe online) which will generate x,y coordinates (representing polygons) from a simple line drawing. I have looked online but the result comes up most is VectorMagic. Which spits out a text ...

Fiddler web debugging: Missing time information?

Normally its possible to display a fiddler session on a timeline, to see the sequence of the web requests and how long it took to get a response. However, for some reason a certain session does not contain any time information, therefore the timeline feature does not work. The Statistics of the requests show blank time values: ACTUAL P...

Selecting Users For A/B (Champion/Challenger) Testing

We have a framework that offers A/B split testing. You have a 'champion' version of a page and you develop a 'challenger' version of it. Then you run the website and allocate some of your users the champion and some the challenger and measure their different responses. If the challenger is better than the champion at achieving your me...

Web site performace tools ?

YSlow, dynaTrace, HTTPWatch, Fiddler ......... All these things are really good for measuring the performance of the website and get statistics for the same. YSlow is really cool, offers good guidelines also. However, i am very confused with so many things around (Though it's good that people already invested time and have made nice g...

How to design and model a web appication after graphical design?

Hi, I need to develop a complex web application, I have already designed (GUI) all the web pages, and the DB. Now I would like to design the code behind and the actual ASP.net (decide using a common base class for different pages, using a control or not, etc....). How do you do that? which models do you use (like inheritance diagram, etc...

Best practices for client side vs. server side redirects: When to use what ?

I understand that most of the languages support server side redirects (asp.net: Response.Redirect, PHP: header( 'newpage' ) ; ). You could also do a redirect with JavaScript (window.location.href="newLocationURL"). When would you choose one over the other ? With respect to ASP.net/IIS7(app pool in Integrated mode,enable 32 bit apps=fal...