web-development

What front-end (browser) frameworks completely abstract the browser?

Cappuccino is one. "With Cappuccino, you don't need to know HTML. You'll never write a line of CSS. You don't ever have interact with DOM." What other front-end frameworks completely abstract away DOM/HTML/JavaScript/CSS? ...

Read-only Combobox with ZK Framework

Why the Combobox components, when read only, don't allows the user select a option with the Page Down\Page Up keys? How to enable this feature? ...

Show code demos online

Is any website where I could upload my JQuery/Javascript, CSS, and HTML projects to show demos? I am looking for any free file hosting service to show my demos, has a public download location for those files, and is more than just storing files on their server. I have asked this question because I would be providing links on my wor...

Does anyone use the PL/SQL Web Toolkit?

Does anyone use the PL/SQL Web Toolkit at all? We use it for internal reporting where I work. However, does anyone have any experiences of it for producing client-facing websites? General advantages/disadvantages compared to other web languages, such as JSP, PHP etc ...

Manipulating the DOM tree

Hi, If I load a page in an iframe, run doc.querySelect to retrieve a node N, append N to doc.body by doc.body.appendChild(N), and then remove all children from doc.body until it reaches N, would N be guaranteed to be rendered the same way as pristine in Firefox or IE? So far in the example that I have tried, it's alright, but I was wond...

how to read SNMP for bandwidth using php

Hello I would like to get data using SNMP from a router. The data shall be used for a graph I guess using the jquery flot. But my issue is I do not know how to get my webpage to read the data using SNMP from the router. I normally use MRTG but I would like to learn how to handcode it if possible. BR. Anders ...

Submitting a page is not updating my model?

Hey all, Please allow me to preface this by saying I'm pretty much brand new to java web development so I hope I'm explaining this problem correctly. I've inherited a wicket website from a fellow who has left for greener pastures and there has been a request to ask new users to include their race and ehthnicity upon registration to the...

Recommendations for SMS gateways with API-support

I'm building a web application that needs to send notifications by SMS. What SMS gateway service providers with API support fulfill the following requirements: Reliable Global delivery - I will send globally with no specific region being sent to more than others Ideally cheap What are your recommendations? Why? ...

Browser actions outside the viewport

If an iframe loads a page containing a javascript ticker, but the ticker is outside the viewport, will a browser still waste CPU on running the ticker? ...

benchmark/profiling maximum users can support on web application

any easy to use utility/tool/profiler/benchmark that able to test what is the maximum users a web application able to support by analyzing session size , cpu speed, memory size..etc and 'PREDICT' when server is overpacked/overloaded? ...

Which web browsers support Gelocation via HTML5?

Which web browsers (and version) support Gelocation via HTML5? ...

SEO: do crawlers understand <a href=.. links that never will be used?

Hi, I'm developing a public classified advertisement portal, where users can post their ads (ie selling cars, houses, looking for a job,..) and browse them. I want to make the listings (ie "cars", "recently added", ..) SEO-friendly, so each link to advert detail is in his canonical form, ie: <ul> .. <li> <a href="http://mysite/ad/title...

is it too early to accept HTML 5 ?

HTML 5 has interesting features for developer and user, but if customers are still demanding to have support for old browsers should designer/developer go for HTML 5 ? Or should stick to good old ways using JavaScript libraries, flex and flash to do the heavy lifting. If accepting HTML 5 is too early, how long you think it will take to ...

jQuery fadeOut() and slideUp() at the same time?

I have found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/734554/jquery-fadeout-then-slideup and it's good, but it's not the one. How can I fadeOut() and slideUp() at the same time? I tried two separate setTimeout() calls with the same delay but the slideUp() happened as soon as the page loaded. Has anyone done this? Thanks ...

rendering pdf on webside ala google documents

In a current project i need to display PDFs in a webpage. Right now we are embedding them with the Adobe PDF Reader but i would rather have something more elegant (the reader does not integrate well, it can not be overlaid with transparent regions, ...). I envision something close google documents, where they display PDFs as image but a...

Do copyright dates need to be updated?

Every now and then I see a web site that has an old copyright date. In my mind, I always think "Look at the sucker who forgot to update his copyright year!" Then, while I was hard-coding a copyright year into the site I'm currently designing, it suddenly struck me: How the hell am I going to remember to update this? My immediate react...

End my urls with trailing slash (/) or not? And how do I go about it doing this with codeigniter..

Hey guys, I am trying to figure out which is most appropriate. From the articles I have read, it seems best to end url's with a trailing slash. So instead of: http://www.site.com/article It would read: http://www.site.com/article/ First I adjusted my htaccess to force a trailing slash. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCo...

Multi Row Tables Always Vertically Center Content

I'v basically got a table with 2 rows and it looks like this: --------- | | | | | | | | | |-------- My problem is that the second row auto centers vertically like this: |hey| | |hey|hey| |hey| | |-------- How so right now I'm adding paragraphs until it just becomes the size of the other: |hey|hey| |hey| | |hey| ...

What technologies exist to integrate 3D content with web-site?

I am web-developer. I would like to integrate 3D Content into my web-site. The level of integration should allow something like 3D Cube floating above HTML Content. Moreover, I want 3D Content to be interactive, i.e. one should be able to click on certain side of the cube and get some JavaScript code executed in same way as if somebody c...

Implementing a game for the web using PHP/Javascript?

I need some suggestions on how to start off with this one. My end goal is to make some visually striking wheel that can revolve a set of pictures and stop randomly at some picture and display some text in the center of the wheel. With the number of AJAX libraries out there, I am pretty sure someone must have done something similar. Does ...