Date: 05/30/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, browser, web, google

Search giant launches Google Gears, open-source software that brings offline access and local storage to the Web browser.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6187596.html

Date: 06/06/07 (Mozilla)    Keywords: blogging, browser, web

Hiya,

Came across a kewl new browser in the making....called netalter it is supposed to offer true p2p email, chat, blogging, and stuff like that...

here is a screenshot. that i scooped from their website

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/389654.html

Date: 06/07/07 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser

Is your browser secure?

IE7: http://secunia.com/product/12366/
11 Advisories
73% Unpatched
9% Extremely Critical
18% Highly Critical
9% Moderately Critical
64% Less Critical
0% Not Critical

FF2: http://secunia.com/product/12434/
9 Advisories
56% Unpatched
0% Extremely Critical
33% Highly Critical
11% Moderately Critical
33% Less Critical
22% Not Critical

O9: http://secunia.com/product/10615/
6 Advisories
0% Unpatched
0% Extremely Critical
50% Highly Critical
17% Moderately Critical
33% Less Critical
0% Not Critical

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/65486.html

Date: 06/10/07 (Webmaster View)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, browser, html, database, sql, linux, apache

Last month,I did a clean install of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my home computer removing the "dapper drake". But it is only now, I got a chance to sit down and install all necessary packages to set up my development server again.

With Dapper Drake, I had to use alien to convert MySQL5 rpm to .deb, because there was no version 5 in the repositories. Anyway, Feisty has all newest versions of software.

This is what I did for setting up my development server:

For installing MySQL server I ran the command: sudo apt-get install mysql-server. Then I installed the following:

MySQL Administrator: It is a Graphical User Interface for administrating MySQL: sudo apt-get install mysql-admin

MySQL Query Browser is a GUI for managing databases: sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser

Apache: sudo apt-get install apache2

Apache Manual: sudo apt-get install apache2-doc

PHP: sudo apt-get install php5

PHP module for Apache: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

Enabling public_html directories for users

Well, I am the only user in my computer. But I can create and edit files without running sudo if I have a public_html directory at my home. sudo a2enmod userdir. I then restarted Apache and created a 'public_html' directory in my home. Now I can access it with http://localhost/~username/.

Enable mod_rewrite

1. sudo a2enmod rewrite.
2. Edit Apache configuration: sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
3. Change line 12: “AllowOverride none” to “AllowOverride all”
4. save and close
5. Restart Apache

(Thanks to mod_rewrite for Apache2 in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04)

How to restart Apache?

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload.

Todo:

1. Install IEs4Linux.
2. Install Opera.
3. Install Komodo Edit.
4. Install gftp.

Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/server_side/development_server_on_ubuntu_desktop

Date: 06/13/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, java, web

Java applets had taken a beating in the past. Now it appears applets are making a resurgence lately with some quality applet based products. But the real question is how much Java support in browsers it can count on today. Refreshingly Java is still supported on 97.92 % of the browsers based on our web [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/applets-20-java-flash-support-in-browsers/

Date: 06/18/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser

COO John Lilly says Steve Jobs' keynote last week reveals a "corporate-controlled" view of browser market that "betrays (Apple's) thinking."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6191562.html

Date: 06/21/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: browser, web

I've gone to so many places online for a few years now and have yet to find a perfect solution.

I know those 2 words should never apply to web design and dev but still. By perfect I mean a footer that actually stays at the bottom of the screen at all times. The same as if it was in a table format. Doesn't matter if the content needs scrolling. Is not only cross browser and cross platform sufficient but also in the same place no matter what resolution.

The resolution thing to me has always been the biggest issue, FF, IE, Safari & Opera all are workable if you design for an exact resolution. Once you change resolutions, I find footers have the most issues. They are the most "unliquid-like" objects I can think of.

I'm also looking for a centering issue that uses all the above scenarios, but one albatross at a time. Padding and margins are doing the trick sorta so far.

So Div footers that are actually liquid as well as absoluter bottom. Does it even exist?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/417178.html

Date: 06/22/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, virus, web

(please note... i'm a novice and do websites for fun!)

Argh!!! I'm having a bit of rubbish time.... I'm putting together a website called www.pinup-parade.com, to showcase European-based vintage-style pin-up. Obviously this involves using photos. But because I really don't like clunky galleries or flash-heavy ones, or the kind of galleries that are a headache to customise, I thought the easiest option would be to have a simple table with a thumbnail in each cell, and then on clicking the thumbnail, a pop-up of the full-size image.

I've just put up the first gallery, and I'm pleased with it. It's clean, and it needs a couple of tweaks, but it does its job. I've tried it on 4 different computers (one at home, 3 at work) and they're all fine.

I've sent the URL to some friends, and some can get on the page - but curiously some people can't get the page to load at all.

Initially I thought this was because the site was down, but it can't be down that much! My thought is that perhaps some browsers or virus thingies are so geared up to block pop-ups that they won't even load a page if it contains pop-up script. Would I be right? I have a suspicion that it might be UK-based AOL users who can't get on the site.

The way round this would be of course to have a separate page for each full-size picture, but it would be a bit annoying and would fill up my directories....

Does anyone know a way round this? If you can help, you get to look at pictures of pretty ladies in old dresses!

Click here to see the page - and if nothing loads, let me know!

Edit: Someone's just said that they can't get on that page, nor even the site's front page. It's an add-on domain (or parked or something... the terms confuse me), so it's actually hosted within rockinscene.com

Could it be a problem with the url pinup-parade.com not resolving properly? But I don't understand why it would work for some people and not others!

If you can't getthat link up there to work, try this one.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Edit #2: The people who couldn't get it load before now can... But I don't understand what was going on. This hasn't happened to me before!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1269489.html

Date: 06/23/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: cms, browser, web, ebay

I am writing this from Opera Mini beta 4, and so far so good! There are a few things that can be worked on, I would love to see the feeds on here (and podcasting would be a dream) but the load time and render time are both faster, as well as the virtual mouse and zoomout providing a better overall web experience.

Already, with version 3, I could do eBay, my banking, and administer my cms, but now it seems to do even better. It seems to render margins in webpages now, and has visual effects on a BB, but no skinning on the beta makes my eyes hurt from too much light! I am glad that I can have my 3.1.7 (don't ask me how I got that version when only 3.1.2 is available for dl, even I am not sure...) alongside the beta 4, so no real loss having it, and I can get the best of both. For any wondering if they should try the beta, I say go for it:

For the beta:
http://mini.opera.com/beta

For the stable:
http://mini.opera.com/

Go to it on your phone, nextels need a data cable to grab it, if you have a tmo unlimited data, especially with a blackberry, it is invaluable. As for tech savvyness, what can be better than a real browser on your phone?

Of course, it cannot be used with verizon last I looked, but who would want to?

And last, to mention the price: free as in beer, from the fine people wo brought you Opera Browser!

X-posted to my own journal

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1082974.html

Date: 06/28/07 (Apache)    Keywords: browser, apache

We bought a certificate for a domain.   I've set up a few sites with ssl before this, so I was careful to enter the FQDN in my csr request.  A day later Verisign sent the cert in an email, which we copied into a sitename.crt file on the server.   I made an unecrypted version of the key so I wouldn't have to enter the passphrase every time Apache starts.  (yes I entered the passphrase, which was accepted)

So - I start the server without errors.  When I access the site using https://sitename, the browser returns a certificate mismatch error.   The cert details appear with localhost, localdomain, ect, which is not what I entered when creating the csr & key. 


    ServerName sitename.department.domain.ext
    ServerAdmin abc@123.def
    DocumentRoot /www/virtualhosts/sitename
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/sitename-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/sitename-access_log common
    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/crt/sitename.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/ssl/crt/sitename_unencrypted.key
    SSLCACertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/crt/intermediate.crt



Is there a way to print out the details listed in a crt file, from command line?   Can I do the same with the original csr file?  

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/38398.html

Date: 06/28/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

I just did a site redesign for my T-shirt design sideline at .

The problem I have is that the anchors work in every browser I have access to including Safari, Firefox and IE 7 - except IE6.

Would someone take a look at what I've done and tell me where I screwed up, or how to get around IE's screw-up, whichever it is?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1272602.html

Date: 07/02/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

I created a simple contact us form, but the form fields size look so different on IE and Safari browser. The form fields look longer on Safari, especially the field where they write messages. How can make the form fields look the same length and size on both browser?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1275798.html

Date: 07/03/07 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

Since upgrading to 2.0.0.4 from previous version:

A. Upon launch, a small Firefox box - with the minimize, full screen, close buttons (and the 'fox logo) comes up and docks itself to the upper left corner of my screen. It does nothing. A second, real browser window opens after a few moments, and it is with this window that I can check email, etc.

B. Whenever I click on a link from Thunderbird, another instance of Firefox is also launched. The link opens up in a tab on the (main/first) browser window, and the new instance does the same thing, hang out in that corner - as shown in the screencap.



So: How can I get rid of this extra instance of Firefox? Thanks in advance for your help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/391354.html

Date: 07/05/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, browser

OK, I have a site redesign going on at and it works fine in most browsers. The problem I'm having is that IE 7 and Firefox don't seem to accept a percentage in the height variable. It keeps setting the height to some very small size (around 100 pixels, give or take 20) rather than the 65% of the available space like I spec'ed.

Any ideas how to fix this other than what I did (which was to do a PHP if/elseif/else function to call in separate segments for the iframe depending on the browser set)?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1277636.html

Date: 07/09/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: browser, html, xml

I have a deceptively simple problem.

Using an XMLHTTPRequest object, I pull data off the server and grab it in the form of an XML Document object. As it happens, this data is actually well-formed XHTML. After I do some processing on this XML Document, I merely want to insert it into an output DIV tag.

My initial instinct was to be as simple as possible: divTag.appendChild(xmlDoc);

You might have already guessed- that doesn't work. Or, more accurately, it does work, exactly as it should. The code above appends the XML document object as XML data to the DIV. Which means the XHTML tags contained in the XML document are not interpreted by the browser.

So, for illustration, I have an XML document like this:

  
Some data
  
Some more data

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/135669.html

Date: 07/09/07 (SQL Server)    Keywords: browser, sql

Okay, this should be simple...

I'm trying to find the cube browser in SQL Server 2005. I cannot for the life of me do so. Can anyone point me to it? Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/sqlserver/60894.html

Date: 07/10/07 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: browser, html, asp, web

Ok, this is going to sound really weird, and it's kind of hard to explain, but is there a way to take an ASPX file, and load its contents, allowing you to use code behind, without a browser?

Basically here is what I need to do:

I have an AJAX enabled web page, and I need to be able to use a lot of the AJAX enabled controls like the CollapsiblePanelExtender. The thing is, speed of loading the page is paramount, and even though the final data isn't that much, the business code to massage the data is huge and actually time consuming. What I need to be able to do, is on a daily basis, have a service that generates the page, and then stores the page, with the massaged data, to the DB. Then what happens is when the "page" itself is called by a user, it goes to the DB and gets my "aspx" code, and sends that down. It can't be generated HTML. Not going to get in to "why" here.

Basically the "aspx" page would have asp controls on it like labels, but the text itself is already saved, and there is no need for code behind to generate the data.

It's kind of like a template in that I'd have an ASPX page that is my "template" The service would then load the page as if it was in a browser, and it would go through and set the "Text" values on the Labels, text boxes, etc. etc. based on the data from the DB, but then instead of saving the generated HTML, it would just modify the ASPX itself, and I could then save that ASPX code to the DB.

Currently what I do is create an ASPX page, and then rename it to a text file. The labels don't have any IDs or anything, and then I just go through and replace everything as text.

I know there has to be a better way to do this. Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/90433.html

Date: 07/10/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, browser, html, database, sql

Ok, so I have a fully UTF-8 MySQL database with a fully UTF-8 table. I have a php page which has "" at the top of the html section and "mysql_set_charset("utf8");" after my connection (it's php 2.2.3, so that's more or less the same as "mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");).  I have all my php.ini mbstring stuff configured for utf-8:

mbstring.language = Neutral
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = auto
mbstring.encoding_translation = On
mbstring.detect_order = auto

and for what it's worth, echo mb_internal_encoding(); reports "UTF-8".

when I run a query that pulls out (in this case, Japanese, but say any) UTF8 data, it displays properly in MySQL Query Browser.  With php in the above context however, it does not.  Instead, it prints a ? corresponding to each character.  When I use mb_detect_encoding(); on each such string, it tells me they are encoded as ASCII.  The nearest I can tell is that somewhere between using mysql_query() and mysql_fetch_row(), things got messed up.  Is this a bug?  Is there something I'm missing?  Any clues? Help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/420578.html

Date: 07/11/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, html, web

EDIT: Okay, I'm slowly making headway, I forgot about floats and clears and all that fun stuff, and I managed to get the layout to work the way I want in IE7, but of course, as these things happen, the codes aren't working in Firefox. These two anamolies are what are happening in that browser:
1) When I make the entry div id float left, the background inherent in the pagebody div id that contains the entries and the sidebar disappears.
2) The background from pagebody won't repeat as the sidebar increases in size. The background WILL repeat, however, if the entries increase in size. I don't understand why it will for one and not the other when both are contained within the same tags.

It also seems that while the sidebar will now align vertically with the entries in IE7 it won't on Firefox.

Any help appreciated, the files to take a gander at are:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/index.txt
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/leaf.css

(Also I realize the bugs more than likely come from the IE side of things, but IE is what I'm used to working in and generally I don't have such aggravating problems between browsers so I'm at a pretty good loss.)


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Allrighty, so I'm making a journal layout, conceivably I want it to look like this:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/
And it (seems) to be working fine as it is, but I was just wondering a couple of things about CSS. Everything in that layout essentially is positioned relatively, so it can float and recenter itself depending on a person's browser size. However, in that particular version of the layout the sidebar is positioned absolutely else it would look like this:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/index2.html
The sidebar is shoved under the entries, which makes logical sense because it's floating relative to the position of the entry tags, however is there a way to have the sidebar remain relative in its position but have it look like it does in the version it's absolutely positioned?

And finally, one more question, concerning the version with the sidebar positioned absolutely, if the sidebar is longer than the entries, the background pattern I have repeating in the pagebody tag won't extend along with the sidebar, even though I have the sidebar contained within the pagebody. IE it looks like this. I assume it's because of the absolute position, but again I was wondering if there was a way to fix it that I'm just not figuring out.

I am trying to keep the CSS as simple as possible because I was making layouts with the common user in mind so they can easily implement it instead of having 20 pages of confusing codes, so if there are solutions to these problems that are simple I'd be very excited to use them. I wouldn't be surprised if the solutions are so simple I merely looked them over, which is so often the case, amirite.

Thanks for any help.
Oh and to make your life easier:
Here's the CSS for the position:absolute sidebar layout
and here's the CSS for the position:relative sidebar layout
It's a bit messy, I haven't streamlined it yet, sorry.

(Also, let me apologize if my "lingo" isn't the "official jive" of the webdeveloper world, and I hope that I'm making some sense. If you need me to clarify just ask.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280341.html

Date: 07/12/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css

I'm coding a site for a local business. It works just fine in everything but IE. Not usually a problem - I just use conditional comments to filter out IE browsers and direct them to using an IE-specific CSS file.

But this site is slowly killing me: http://www.1skinnygirl.com/clients/kidtalk/

The wrap in IE6 has about 120px extra whitespace to the right. I cannot figure out why this is happening. I've even had it happen once before, about a year ago, but those particular memory cells must have self-imploded.

In IE6 and IE7, there is some overlapping amongst the boxes on the right side. I know this is because I have the top margin of the "Why Choose KidTalk? / Make a Payment / KidTalk, Inc." group (ul#otherpages) set to -1.5em; it needs to be this way for every other browser.

I've attempted to set it to 0 for IE, but it's not working. For some reason, conditional comments aren't working; star hacks aren't working; nothing is working. I am very frustrated. Please help - I only have to fix this before it can go live and I can get final payment. *Sigh*

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1281199.html