Date: 02/21/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software, browser, html, security, web, microsoft

Ok. This is a odd one...

In addition to running a web design firm, I also own a Classic Rock station. I've got a neat feature called "The 8 Track Player" which shows whats playing as well as the last 7 songs. This is a stand alone browser window that the visitor to the site opens.

This will also open inside Windows media player if a visitor chooses to listen to the station with that software (the station runs shoutcast natively).

until a week or so ago, the refresh code that I have was working fine in both stand-alone and Windows Media Player (WMP) but now the WMP does not refresh yet the stand-alone does.

Both stand alone and WMP use the same code, and there's not been any changes to the code.

The refresh method I am using is:




My theory is that MS has with a security update with Windows XP or WMP 10 changed something that does not allow the VB or Meta to work.

a) does anyone know something about this problem?

b) is there a good place to ask this in-depth question? Have posted on microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.web already.

c) do you think my meta tag or vbscript have an error in it that was working before in WMP with HTMLView until a tightening of code control was implemented?

Thanks,
Chris

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1066771.html

Date: 02/22/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser

Simple Thoughts Blog had a sporadic but consistent comment problem. On submitting comments a blank page was occasionally returned instead of the original page with the comment added. How did I debug it? First I wanted to reproduce the error consistently. I could very rarely see this error with my Firefox browser, possibly because I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blog-comments-problem-solved/

Date: 02/23/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

Can you guys check out the site I'm working on and let me know if there are any problems?

It should look about like this:



Please let me know what browser\OS you're using. I've tested thus far in FF 1.0 and IE6 on Win XP Pro.

Edit: None of the navigation links will work, so that's not an issue.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1069279.html

Date: 02/24/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

Ok.. first off i'm not sure how to phrase or if this is the right place to ask so...sorry for the rambling.. but.. here goes nothing...

I have about 7 .mov files embeded on 7 different pages. They work fine.. they load fine. BUT my client says that most of his prospective clients have PCs withOUT quicktime and he wants to make it easy for them to view , and can i make them AVI files instead. (i know.. i know.. )
So I do that...but then my embed tag doesnt seem to work for some reason...

I found a way to insert> video but that will play my AVI files but it only works with IE.

So here's my question. How can i have one page check for the browser and then choose which string of code to read?
I don't know if that made sence but i now there's a way to have a page determine the browser.. i just.. dont know how.. and i'm not sure i can have it then go read the line that will work on said browser.
Any links or help would be helpful.. thanks!

OK.. so.. heh, i have new problem.
Now the my object tag isnt working.. See here> http://www.karlinpimsler.com/pages/tv/brava2.htm

ideas anyone?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1069981.html

Date: 02/28/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: php, browser, html

I am trying to set up absolute bookmarks so that I can switch back and forth from different servers in the Travian game without needing a new set of bookmarks for each server. But every time I try to set a bookmark for /spieler.php?s=4 or /dorf2.php, Firefox inserts http:// to the beginning of the URL. This happens after I set the bookmark, so when I go back and delete the protocol text from the bookmark, as soon as I hit 'OK' it is again saved with http:// prefixing it. I tried to manually change it in the bookmarks.html file, but when I reset the browser to let the change show, the bookmarks.html file went back to its original state. When that failed to work, I went back and changed the bookmarks.bak file as well as bookmarks.html. But, again, when I reset Firefox each file was reset to its previous state.

Is there a way to turn this off or get around it? I would appreciate any words of advice, and I thank you for at least taking the time to read this far. (And before I forget, I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.1 on a Windows 98SE platform.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/352866.html

Date: 03/02/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, security, web

Security update fixes 20 vulnerabilities, including a high-profile flaw in the Safari Web browser and Mail client.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6044945.html

Date: 03/05/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

Hi gang,
Was wondering if ya'll could help here.

When trying to open Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on an old P.O.S. Winblows XP Pro 700 Mhz machine, I get this lil box that says something to the effect of (Paraphrase) "The browser could not open due to no XBL Binding" And an OK button. If I click FF enough times (3 or 4 usually) the browser finally opens.

This development is recent, in the past week or so.

In Mozilla, I have the Calendar loaded (but my machine is way too slow, so it's freaky, so I never use it), as well as AdBlock and NoScript. I mention, just in case they are the culprits.

Thoughts? Advice?

TIA!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/353727.html

Date: 03/07/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, technology, microsoft

Microsoft is vigorously defending its decision to turn on its ClearType font rendering technology in Internet Explorer 7 even if users have switched it off system-wide. ClearType is designed to make text more readable on LCD screens. By default, it's disabled in Windows, but Microsoft's IE 7 team has decided to enable it for the browser, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-knows-whats-best-for-you/

Date: 03/08/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css

Adding a new post so the other doesn't get too cluttered. I've fixed the CSS code so that it looks a little better. Again, this is the link.


/* all lists */
#navmenu, #navmenu ul {padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
line-height: 1;
width: 75em;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica;
font-size: .7em;
color: #52686F;
font-weight: normal;}

#navmenu a {display: block;
width: 5em;}

/* all list items */
#navmenu li {float: left;
width: 10em;
padding: 5px;}

/* second-level lists */
#navmenu li ul {position: absolute;
background: #C2C3BC;
border: 1px solid #8C856B;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica;
font-size: 1em;
width: 10em;
left: -999em;}

/* third-and-above-level lists */
#navmenu li ul ul {margin: -1em 0 0 3em;}

#navmenu li:hover ul ul, #nav li.sfhover ul ul {left: -999em;}

/* lists nested under hovered list items */
#navmenu li:hover ul, #nav li li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul, #nav li li.sfhover ul {left: auto;}

These are my questions:

1. In IE, is there a fix so that the menu will fall below the main item instead of beside it?
2. How can I get my links to not wrap? I tried resizing the LI, but all that does is add extra space to
the right side.
3. In Firefox, not sure about other browsers, the width of my menu is too large, but if I resize in IE, it
screws the whole thing up.
4. If I wanted a border separating each link in the dropdowns, in which element would I place the border
style?

I hope those were clear enough. Thanks again for everyone's help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1076660.html

Date: 03/08/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

Hi all, I'm a proud happy user of Firefox (and Thunderbird at home, tho I have to use Outlook at work). I'm suddenly getting a really weird Firefox error at work.

I had installed the extension bookmarkshome (along with a bunch of others) and had that formatted version of my bookmarks as one of my home pages.

A couple days ago, when I typed
about:bookmarkshome
in the address bar, I started getting a page that's basically blank, doesn't have the right formatting and isn't displaying my bookmarks. I get an error box that says:

Preference hiddenEngines with value could not be set for about:bookmarkshome.

There are only two things that are different now from before this started happening. One is I installed Sage. The other is that when I did that, I saw a few of my other extensions had 'update now' buttons so I updated them.

Anyone have an idea how I can fix this other than uninstalling and reinstalling the browser and all the extensions?

p.s. I have had to maxversion bump a couple of the extensions. That wouldn't have any effect outside the specific extension I did that for, though, right?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/353947.html

Date: 03/09/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, technology, google

Upcoming version of the open-source browser will offer protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6047610.html

Date: 03/11/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: software, browser, css, html, xml, asp, java, web, linux, seo, microsoft

Events: A Introduction to the Model of GUI programing

Xah Lee, 2005-05

In Graphical User Interface (GUI) programing, there's the concept of event. For example, moving the mouse, clicking a mouse button, switch to a different window, hitting a key. The software needs to respond to these things. The way it works is that, the programer writes code that draw buttons, menus, windows etc. And the programer write his program so that it knows the mouse position, mouse click, keyboard press, or any other signal from input devices. The programer also writes code so that for example if a mouse click happened, and its position is inside a button, then some function is called as a reaction.


All this is very tedious and very complex. What happens today is that most of the common tasks for GUI software are already written as a package called framework. That is to say, the codes to draw GUI elements such as windows or buttons or dialogue popups, and the detection of input signals such as button clicking or menu selection or keyboard inputs, are all integrated together as a pre-written set of code. The programer is relieved of writing these tedious code. Instead, he call predefined functions in the framework to deal with many issues related to creating a GUI.

In such a framework, it is still quite complicated. Such framework often comes in the guise of Operating System Developer's Kit. For example, writing application in Mac OS uses Apple's kit called Cocoa, Carbon, Toolbox, and there's also Microsoft's Foundation Classes (MFC) and Linux has frameworks such as Gnome, and Java offers its own GUI framework called AWK and Swing.

All these frameworks are incompatible with each other, but the model they use are basically the same. In today's personal computing, one basically have graphical “Windows”, and in it one has “Menus”, and “Buttons”, “Dialogues”. User point or click on these to tell the software to do specific things. For the programer, the way it works in these frameworks is like this:

In the framework, GUI elements such as Windows, Menus, Buttons are collectively called “widgets”. For each GUI element there is a pre-defined function that draws them. The programer calls these functions to draw them. When a user act on these widgets such as pressing a button, the widget's function will receive a signal. Each widget may be associated with different types of signals. For example, Windows can be dragged or resized, while a button can be clicked, a menu has items to be selected. When a Window is dragged, the corresponding widget function might get a signal that is the positions of beginning and ending coordinates. When a window is closed, the widget function will get a “close” signal. When a button is clicked, that button's widget function will get a “click” signal. When a menu is pulled, that menu's widget function will get a signal of the selected item.

For each widget-drawing function the programer called, he assigns to it a function called “event handler”. These event handlers are called and are given the signals when user acts on them. For example, when a button is clicked, the button widget function automatically calls its event handler function and gives it “clicked” as argument.

The programer doesn't have to worry about how the button function knew when it is being pressed. All that is implemented in the framework. The GUI programer today only needs to call these widget function as to design the appearance of the window, where the button shows up, what menu items are there etc, and assign a function (event handler) to each of these functions, so that when these GUI elements are hit, the widge functions call the programer's event handler functions, which do whatever computation the software is actually supposed to do.
HTML, DOM, JavaScript, and the Browser as a GUI Application Platform

In writing Web Application using JavaScript, the technologies involved are HTML, DOM, JavaScript, and the Browser.

The HTML (and related technologies such as XML and CSS) are used to show the GUI widgets and content. DOM ascribes to HTML a standard definition of structural meaning so that it can be manipulated programmatically. And, JavaScript is the language that actually lets the programer program what happens. While the browser, is the underlying engine that ties everything together. It takes care of rendering the HTML, and takes care of knowing all the mouse positions and register all events (user actions) such as keystroks, mouse movement, clicks, menu pulls, window closing etc. It takes care of interpreting the JavaScript code, and will execute them when a event happens.

Here, the GUI is the browser window and HTML elements (radio checklist, check box list, menu list, text field, button, window pane/frame etc.). The events (user actions) are defined by DOM. They are for example: oncopy, ondrag, onload, onclick, onkeydown, onmouseover. And the actions (event handlers) are JavaScript functions the user writes.

For example, it may be desired to change the cursor icon to a finger when the mouse is moved over a hyperlink. So, a hyperlink (considered as a widget) has a MouseOver event, and the programer can assign a event handler to it, so when a mouse hovers over a link, that function is called, and the function's code changes the mouse pointer icon to a finger icon.

For list of events defined by DOM, see for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events.asp
Assign Event Handlers to GUI Widgets

To associate a event handler to a HTML widget, there are two ways. One way is to put the code directly inside the HTML tag, like this:

Hover Over Me!

Hover Over Me!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/96319.html

Date: 03/14/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, browser, html, web, google

Edited for solution

It's been forever and a day since I've been able to view any of the tutorials from this site -- http://tutorials.stuartlittlephotography.co.uk/

Apparently I'm not the only one, so he sent out an email the other day --


Removing White Backgrounds

Hi There,

In the past 2 weeks I have been experimenting with different ways of delivering the weekly tutorial, because depending on what computer set up you have, you either get to watch the tutorial or you don't. "I have been listening to your comments you know" :)

So I have come up with a way of embedding the normal Quicktime video into a pdf and using that pdf as a container for delivery through your browser. The pdf version has been tested with users like yourself this week on Internet Explorer, Mozilla & Safari web browsers and no problems so far.

Instructions

You will need to have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. Its free and you can get it by clicking on the link below or copying and pasting the url into your web browser.

Get Adobe Reader

Click or Copy & Paste into Browser.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Once you have Acrobat installed you can then go to the tutorials page as normal.

When you click on the "View Here" link, a blank browser page will appear and the pdf will start to download. It is 10.48mb in size and will take about 2.5 min's to download.

Once you can view the page in the browser you will then be able to "save a copy" to your desktop and view offline for as long as you want.

Finally, there is an option in Acrobat to change the view in %. The video tutorial is best viewed at 75% rather than the default 100%. If you have any problems then please email me by return.

This method of pdf delivery has been tested this week, but I am very keen to know what you think of it?

Removing White Backgrounds

This episode shows you how to remove a subject from its white background and blend with another image.

Click or Copy & Paste into Browser.
http://tutorials.stuartlittlephotography.co.uk/

I downloaded the tutorial. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 and Quicktime 7 but when I tried to
view it, I got the error "The media requires an additional player. Please click 'Get Media Player' to download the correct media player. To play the media, you will need to close and restart the application once the player installation is complete." When I click 'Get Media Player' it takes me to the Apple site and I download Itunes and Quicktime 7, which I already have. So, I uninstalled QuickTime 7 and installed 6.5.2. Now I can get past that initial error, but I am back to hearing audio and no video. I get this error "QuickTime is missing software required to perform this operation. Unfortunately, it is not available on the QuickTime server."

I can't seem to find anything helpful with google. Can someone please help me alleviate my frustration?

Cheers!!

The solution
was so easy once I found out. In Adobe Reader, there is an option to check for new updates. When I clicked this, I received a message that there were no new updates. Googling the right question brought me to an actual Adobe page that had a link to some updates. (Not sure why the program didn't find these). I updated my Adobe Reader to 7.0.5 and now have no troubles viewing the movie.

I found this solution on this page -- http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331566.html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/893193.html

Date: 03/14/06 (Apache)    Keywords: browser, web, apache

I'm not sure where I should search for the answer on my question, so I decided to ask you guys :-) Thanks in advance for everyone who can help.

There is a FreeBSD server where an apache is installed. One httpd process is listening to port 80 and works as a proxy for the other httpds which work on a number of virtual hosts. These httpds also listen to some port which shouldn't be shown to the web-sites' visitors.

In the text of the proxy httpd's httpd.conf we have such a code:


ServerName megaserver.su
DocumentRoot /home/megaserversu/www
ProxyPass / http://www.megahoster.su:32001/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.megahoster.ru:32001/
#CacheRoot "/usr/local/apache/proxy/"


Then a visitor asks for megaserver.su, the proxy httpd send a request to the corresponding httpd of that site and returns the data as if it have taken if from its own folders. The problem appears when one requests a folder like megaserver.su/superfolder/ - if there is a trailing slash then everything is fine, but if there isn't... it's fine too, except of the address represented by browser that transforms to http://megaserver.su:32001/superfolder/

Just in case:

There are such lines in the configs of the proxy and personal httpds:

LoadModule dir_module libexec/apache2/mod_dir.so
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so

I understand that I should set somehow that the requests for folders without trailing slash should be treated as the one with it, but which module really does it? I've read the docs on these two modules but couldn't determine how to make it do what I want. Maybe it's better just to rewrite the address string on the proxy httpd using mod_rewrite, is it possible? Which way is better?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/30972.html

Date: 03/16/06 (Apache)    Keywords: php, mysql, browser, sql, web, apache

Hello All

I'm sorry if this is a painfully stupid question, but I've tried looking everywhere on the interweb for an answer, but to no avail.

I'm running apache 1.3 in XP at the moment, and am using it as a development server, as I'm currently trying to make and test a little pet project of mine using php and mysql. When I try to connect to the server through a browser (by typing "http:/ /localhost"), it loads the index page fine, but if I try any of the links off of that page, IE insists I connect to the internet, despite the fact they are locally hosted, and are in the htdocs folder. I'm certain the server is running, it just won't let ne access them through a browser. I'm pretty sure It's something blatently obvious, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou greatly

Sam

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/31079.html

Date: 03/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, css, html

In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/browser-quirks-mode-activation-table/

Date: 03/17/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: mysql, browser, sql

I've writen a function


auto_populate($file_name)
{
    $file=file($file_name);
    foreach($file as $sql)
    {
       mysql_query($sql);
       echo $sql."< br >"; // To test the file is being processed
    }
}

if I call it with a filename (eg. auto_populate("test.txt");) I see the lines in the browser but the db still remains empty.

each line is in the format

insert into 'area' values(0, 'Yorkshire')

am I missing something?

Tia

Pual

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/427879.html

Date: 03/18/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Here's my problem. Usually 1 to 5 minutes after signing on to the internet, all open windows and running programs on my computer shut themselves down leaving me with a view of my desktop. Then a few seconds later, all icons on my desktop and the bar at the bottom disappear leaving me with just the background image of my desktop.

At this point there is nothing I can do except manually turn the computer off. Even pressing ctrl-alt-del doesn't bring up the task manager or anything. I can still see and move the mouse arrow, but that's it.

The first time this happened I had recently played Quake 2, and had messed around with the video settings. So initially I thought that had something to do with it. I restored my computer to a checkpoint from last month so any changes resulting from that would be undone, yet it still shuts down every time I use the internet.

Then I noticed my computer was only doing this when I signed online. As long as I stay offline I'm fine. So this makes me suspect it's a problem with Internet Explorer. Now, recently I also pissed off the moderator of a certain website. He banned my specific IP address from his site last week, so I'm thinking maybe he also sent something to infect my web browser.

Regardless of why this is happening, I would like to try deleting Internet Explorer completely from my computer and either reinstalling it or another browser like Firefox. However there are two problems with this.

1. I can't download Firefox because before it finishes downloading my computer shuts down.

2. I can't figure out how to remove Internet Explorer from my computer. It seems to be integrated into the OS. (I use windows XP)

Does anyone have any ideas on why this problem is happening or what I need to do? I can't even stay online long enough to make a livejournal post. I had to use my dad's computer to post this.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/601618.html

Date: 03/21/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Microsoft is looking into public reports of a flaw in IE that could cause a malicious Web site to crash the browser.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6051656.html

Date: 03/22/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: programming, browser, html, xml, java, microsoft

I'm writing a bit of Javascript (not quite a total newbie but gosh-darn close, though I have experience in other programming languages) to display some XML transformed by XSL. I've created the files to do this and if I use them seperately (sans Javascript), it displays just fine. And that's fine for browsers that have that capability and can handle that without issues, but I'd like to see if I couldn't increase its compatibility a bit by using (drum-roll) Javascript.

Here's the contents of the two files. All of the info is completely made up.

employees.xml contains:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/97239.html