web-development

CSS/HTML: How do I change the color of the check mark within the checkbox input?

How do I change the color of the check mark within an HTML checkbox input? ...

Where Firefox extensions store data?

I want to write plugin for GNOME Do, that will work with Firefox extensions data (for example, with URL Alias patterns). I have looked through files in my profile folder (~/.mozilla/firefox/.default/), but haven't found anything related. Can anybody help me? ...

How to get Latitude/Longitude from Web App?

Hello- I have a Web ADF application and I simply want the user to have the ability to click on the map and a Popup window displays the Latitide/Longitude values where the users click on the map. How can I do this? ...

Need to dynamically-generate a "sticky note" text

Working on a website that has an image of a sticky note which will change text somewhat frequently (every month or so) as new "todo" items are created on it. Font I'm currently using is not Web Safe and the text is slightly angled to match the skew of the sticky note as well. Now I'm a pragmatist, and in situations like this I would no...

How do you overlay text on images/videos?

Hi. We need to place text over objects in a web page, similar to this: http://www.queness.com/resources/html/slideshow/jquery-slideshow.html The text "bar" needs to appear on top of images and videos. For the videos, we're using the html5media library (http://code.google.com/p/html5media/), which renders a <video> tag for those browsers...

How to add Tool from ESRI resource center (Web ADF) to GeoCortex Web ADF Application

I have an Out-Of-The-Box GeoCortex Web ADF application and I want to add The Hyperlink Tool (see below link). I Should be able to do this but GeoCortex does not have any great documentation for this. Who can help me here?? Thanks in advance. http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/adf/dotnet/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&amp;scriptID...

Reuse, Rewrite, or Refactor?

At work I inherited development of a PHP-based Web site after the consultant who originally produced it bailed out and left without a trace. Literally half of the code is ripped from online tutorials, and there are thousands of lines of cruft that, being incomplete, do precious little. Hardly any of it actually works. I've been trying to...

How to reference an anonymous JavaScript function?

I'm trying to call a Page Method using a jQuery 'attached' event function, in which I like to use the closure to keep the event target local, as below, but page method calls declare several 'error' functions, and I would like to use one function for all of them. If, in the below code, I was handling an error and not success, how could I...

How do you handle very old browsers on your site?

Hi. We have a non-profit web site that got about 5 million hits in May. Of those, about 5,700 were from IE 5.x or lower; about 4,000 were from folks with Netscape 4.x or lower. We know that the current site's layout works for newer browsers and we're testing it on IE6 as well (along with Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Firefox). How do you ha...

Does ASP.net 1.1 support Generic HttpHandlers ?

I need to get an image from a SQL Server as a byte[], and load it to a WebControl.Image. The only seemingly good way to do it that I found is to implement IHttpHandler and handle the request accordingly. But I'm stuck to using asp.net 1.1. Does it support ashx files? ...

Can I select input nodes based on value in JQuery?

I have a list of file input boxes and I want to know if any of them have a value using a single selector statement. Can I do something like this: $('input:file[value!=null]') or something similar. ...

How has RIA technology evolved and what technology stack currently rules this domain?

I am new to RIA and have not been actively involved with this technology in my projects as we using server-side Java, but I want to gain some experience with RIA. My questions are: How has RIA technology evolved and in your opinion - What technology stack currently rules this domain? What are the recommended resources for learning R...

link_to passing paramater and display problem - tag feature - Ruby on Rails

I have gotten a great deal of help from KandadaBoggu on my last question and very very thankful for that. As we were getting buried in the comments I wanted to break this part out. I am attempting to create a tag feature on the rails blog I am developing. The relationship is Post has_many :tags and Tag belongs_to :post. Adding and dele...

Can a war file be deployed on any server?

Please pardon me if this question is silly. Suppose I develop a j2ee web application using srping framework and a MS SQL Server database, using a Webspphere application server. I later create a war file for this application. Can I deploy this war file on a tomcat server without any change in code? Or my question is can this be hosted by ...

Do Url shorteners such as bit.ly serve any purpose in web development?

I might be missing something here but am unable to understand the true purpose of link shortener services like bit.ly or is it just a lot of hype! Truly if you type nyti.ms on your URL bar on the browser it takes you to www.nytimes.com, but still what is so hard in typing "nytimes.com! which is far much comprehensible to read and unders...

will_paginate undefined method error - Ruby on Rails

I just installed the gem for will_paginate and it says that it was installed successfully. I followed all the instructions listed with the plugin and I am getting an 'undefined method `paginate' for' error. Can't find much in the way of Google search and haven't been able to fix it myself (obviously). Here is the code: PostsController ...

Difference between Chrome and Firefox addons ? (Developers Point of view)

I have been using Firefox for since year or two as web developer and i love it, cant think of someone else because of its handy addons Now google Chrome also support addons can someone tell me difference ? Which one is best you think ? Why should i use Chrome over Mizilla ? ...

ASP.NET Navgiate to section on page (help files)

I am writing a help page with sections - What I want to do is allow navigation to a particular section (depending on what page they clicked help from) rather always landing at the top of the page. My web app is written in ASP.NET, Can anyone point me in the direction of how to set this up? Thanks! ...

should web developers learn flash

and is flash being replaced by another standard like html 5 completely? ...

Add URL link in CSS Background Image?

I have a CSS entry that looks like this: .header { background-image: url("./images/embouchure.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; height:160px; padding-left:280px; padding-top:50px; width:470px; color: #eaeaea; border-bottom:1px solid #eaeaea; } How can I add the link to the the background image in t...