web-development

Offline mode app in a (HTML5) browser possible?

Is it possible to build an application inside in browser? An application means: 1 Where there is connection (online mode) between the browser and an remote application server: the application runs in typical web-based mode the application stores necessary data in offline storage, to be used in offline mode (2) the application sync/pus...

Flash swf sometimes squashed when wmode = transparent or opaque on website

Hi, I have a problem on all browsers when I set wmode = transparent (or opaque) on a flash element on my site. I want to overlay some HTML content on top of the flash element, and this works fine, but for some reason the different components within the flash element are sometimes appearing squashed and not in the correct perspective. Thi...

Advice on simple efficient way to store web form data when no db/auth required

Hi, I have a situation where I need to provide an efficient way to process and store comments submitted via a web form. I would normally use PHP and either MySQL or XML to store the data, but this is slightly different in that this web form will only be temporarily available in a closed LAN environment, and all i need to do is process th...

Email/Web server type discovery - using PHP or Perl

Fairly simple question (I think): I have a list of domains, and I want to loop through them, hitting their email and web servers, and determining the type of server software running. Something like this: LOOP over domain list ... Socket connect with www.[domain-name] over Port 80 ... Get return handshake volley of server type >...

Drupal and Back-End Complexity

Currently I am working on a school website, and we are still in the decision-making process of choosing a framework (we know that we're not using Joomla! or hand-coding). Drupal came up as a viable choice, and currently, that is my best bet for the site. However, I have an issue with CMS's in general. I would like to develop a quite comp...

Orientation change event in Browser on Palm webOS

I'm working on a web application where I'm trying to capture when the user rotates the screen. Fundamentally, I want to know if the user is browsing in portrait mode or landscape mode. The iPhone/iPad and Android browsers send a resize event when the screen orientation changes. Unfortunately, the browser in webOS doesn't seem to send t...

Background-color puzzle on CSS for heading/title div.

I have the following title div setup, but when only the leftmost div has content, the red background for the title is not applied. Why is this, as the 'title' div has content, and its background should be red. Head stuff: <title>Into the Breech</title> <link href="Styles/Reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <style type="text...

How do I create an Array into another Array?

I have the following JavaScript Array: var jsonArray = { 'homes' : [ { "home_id":"203", "price":"925", "sqft":"1100", "num_of_beds":"2", "num_of_baths":"2.0", }, { "home_id":"59", "price":"1425", "sqft":"1900", "num_of_beds":"4", "num_of_baths":...

Flex learning path...

Hi all I am current learning Flex 4 programming now and trying to get as much knowledge as I could from the books and adobe website. I have finished 5 days video training from Adobe website and almost done with a book. However, most of them only talk about basic stuffs. (like create skin, components, events..etc) When I checked the...

website doesn't use flash so what is it using?

Hey guys just been looking at the Steam website and noticed it doesnt use Flash. What technologies are being used to create the page? For example the slide bar to scroll through the different games, how exactly is that happening? Thanks in advance for any replys. ...

Managing Unique IDs in stateless (web) DB4O applications

I'm playing around with building a new web application using DB4O - piles of fun and some really interesting stuff learned. The one thing I'm struggling with is DB4O's current lack of support for stateless applications (i.e. web apps, mostly) and the need for automatically-generated IDs. There are a number of creative and interesting a...

Empty database output in CI

Hi. I'm building a simple app and trying to test DB result output. But unfortunately all I'm getting is an array of size 0. Here's the controller code excerpt: $data['query'] = $this->db->query('SELECT role_id, role_privilege FROM role'); $this->load->view('welcome_message', $data); And a view code excerpt: <?php echo count($...

How to setup eclipse ide for php development with pre-existing source

I have been using Dreamweaver for my web development and would like to try out eclipse. I would like to keep the source files where they are now. What do I need to set for my workspace and then how do I set it to look at my existing files? ...

How do i Manage login in visual studio .net 2008? i have the page built but dont know how to use login controls.

Need of tutorials or better yet examples of managing the login controls and session variables. Can i pass the entire page to a c# class? ...

slideDown() makes everything in wrapper shift

Hello everyone, I am currently creating a simple menu where there are several names of services and a user can click on one and jQuery will show it's corresponding paragraph describing it below it. My jQuery code is fine and does exactly what I want, however, I have one bug I have yet to iron out. Whenever I click one of these headings ...

Connecting C++ backend to Javascript

I was hoping to make a website that displays a google map with points based of information returned by a C++ function. I know you can use Java Server Pages to call java methods on the server with javascript. Would there be a way to connect C++ code on the server with javascript in order to produce the same result as java server pages? ...

How to incorporate sound into a Javascript-based website without resorting to Flash programming?

Everything about this website affirms my decision to develop interactive websites with javascript and not flash. But one question though, how they do they incoporate sound effect into it? I check the page source and it's not HTML5. Source: nissanusa ...

What's the best choice for developing real time form validation in ASP.NET

I want to make a real time form validation in asp.net form in which when i lost focus a field it show an error or success of field entrance data i search for best way to do that .. and if i want to do the same by validating data from SQL Database ... what's the best choice for doing that ? ...

CI controller function is ignored

Hi. I'm trying to pass through a CI tutorial (writing a simple forum) and I can't make a controller function called. To be more specific I have this in a controller: function __construct() { parent::Controller(); $this->load->helper('url'); } function index() { $data['title'] = "Wlcome to Go...

Can you give examples of books that teach large web app development?(advanced and basic topics)

Can you give examples of books that teach large web app development? it must not be focused on a programming language, but to be generical with the concepts and structure. thanks :) EDIT anyway the language used is ruby on rails 2.3.4 ...