Hi, I have a website with a directory listing of all the pdf files which I have uploaded via ftp. By clicking any of the file names, the pdf document will show up in your web browser. Is it possible for outside parties to digitally signed the document in the web browser and save it back into the server with a appended "signed" on the fi...
As a programmer with zero design skills and a loathing for cross browser layout issues, what web frameworks have the best separation of layout code from business code? Ideally the distinction between business code and layout code should be clear cut (as in separate source files, as well as logically), with the layout code easily underst...
Recently a client has complained about the appearance of a system font in IE6. Basically th issue is that IE6 doesn't support font-smoothing/anti-aliasing (I know you can turn it on in an OS setting or something). But someone threw out this gem: "You can force font anti-alias in css by using pt instead of px." I did a quick POC in vari...
According to W3Cschools just 17% of users still use IE6. Source Also their statistics show that just 4% of users have a resolution of 800x600 or lower. Source At what point do I neglect users that refuse to update in order to improve the experience for rest of the users? How much do you think the content of the web page effects this t...
I have a php site setup with multiple controllers for the different sections of the site. e.g index.php, gallery.php, faq.php etc. Currently I have a base template which I call from each controller, which in turn includes the relevant content for the page. I also use tinymce to edit this content file. So it's really a very simple cms. E...
Right now, Reddit is down. Every time you go to it, it displays a logo and below it a funny message. Every time you refresh the page it displays a new message. How could I write something simple that ~rotates~ (not random) a line of text on the page every refresh? I'm using ASP.NET MVC but if there is a JavaScript solution to this ...
What do you web developers think? Should we disable pasting in masked password boxes in our web applications or not. Could this be a security hole or cause confusion or unwanted results? This is probably a question about user experience and not so much about programming. ...
uparrow.gif and downarrow.gif So, it would look like so: How can I create 3 divs and style them with CSS so those arrows are positions with the top arrow above the bottom arrow? <div class="vote"> <div class="uparrow" /> <div class="downarrow" /> </div> Should I create a "vote" div with restricted width? Would I float: ...
I'm working on a MySQL database which will create a "Today at" list and send it to subscribers. I'm wondering if it's better to use the DATETIME data type on the start and end fields, or two have two columns, startDate and startTime (with the appropriate data types). My first thought was to use DATETIME, but that makes subsequent use of ...
So, if you are writing a website using Java and JSP's and didn't want users to know what language you written it in. What techniques would you use? ...
Has anyone ran across any good Powerpoint presentations on how to securely develop a web application in Ruby? ...
I own an ecommerce business and am having a heck of a time finding the people I need to do consistent work in a timely fashion. We're looking to bring a programmer/designer on board who has knowledge of SEO coding, use of opensource platforms such as Magento and CRM systems like SugarCRM. I've tried craigslist, careerbuilder, guru.com ...
I am software developer who is inept at UI / Website design. Could someone recommend me an online company that can help me build a usable web interface (CSS / images and layout) and then I will build the rest? I know there a plenty of books that would help but I would rather someone with a great deal of experience in this field to help m...
Just want advice on how to think and do the following, I am creating a website and the user will setup some settings on his profile "images size", then using this settings i want him to point to a folder on his server and my service will monitor and any image upload in this folder i will re size based on settings he saved I first thought...
Hi! I am creating a web application using EJBs and servlets. I have a page which displays a list of all items in the database. I would like to provide an option for the user to click on one of these items and this opens the SHOW servlet which gathers info regarding the item onto the page. I do not want to create a page for every single i...
Forgive me coder for I have sinned. I put some code into a dll in the GAC, and now I am confused about how the GAC is really working with IIS. In our intranet environment I have several related web applications (about 10). Each application runs from a separate url, and potentially runs in its own app pool. For now all of the apps are...
IE 6 and 7 didn't follow many of the w3 standards, like event handling, making it necessary to write code for the standards compliant browsers, and then write MORE code for Internet Explorer. Will IE 8 take us out of this dark age and stabilize web-development? Will it be easier to write one set of code that all browsers will display the...
I'd like to allow our web developers to continue to work in pure HTML and to let developers to write GWT Java-only code to write the rest of the business logic. Is it even possible? Have anyone tried to work with the web developers in the GWT environment? How do you incorporate the web developers into the GWT development process? ...
I want to develop a site and maintain it. I dont do web development (i know some php and sql). It will have significant ajax. Should i program this site and pay a web developer to do this with me or should i have him do it all and check the code for quality purposes? I'm mostly afraid javascript and ajax will take me to long to write an...
Hi I am creating a web application using Netbeans and servlets. I have used some css into my pages. Is there a way how I can put the banner and menu which every servlet will have in one place so I do not need to rewrite this in every servlet? Thank you ...