A web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
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Is RSS auto-discovery still a viable option in 2012?
I am preparing a website and noticed that although the source code contains RSS autodiscovery URL, i.e. something like
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml">
none ...
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Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser? [closed]
Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser?
I use google chrome. I want to know "whether I have visited a particular website ...
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IE9 changes Browser Mode based using domain name or ip address for the url
Update : Tested with IIS6 and IE9 the same problem persisted. using paulmorriss's advice the Browser mode and Document for the page were different, so this problem had nothing to do with IIS6 or 7 but ...
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Is browser and bot whitelisting a practical approach?
With blacklisting it takes plenty of time to monitor events to uncover undesirable behavior and then taking corrective action. I would like to avoid that daily drudgery if possible. I'm thinking ...
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Where can a list of Desktop web browsers be found at?
I have another question posted in regards to the practicality of whitelisting. In this question I'm simply looking for an frequently updated list of top known used Desktop web browsers to use as part ...
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How does one block unsupported web browsers?
Web browsers with an end of life no longer receive security updates which not only makes them vulnerable to the end user, but I imagine its not safe for the server's which receive visits by them ...
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IE disables back-button [closed]
We have an ASP.Net (Web Forms) site hosted on IIS7.
The site contains a table with information retrieved from a database. Paging is enabled for this table, meaning that only 10 rows are displayed at ...
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How do you add a Opera thumbnail for your site?
I noticed that in the "Speed Dial" feature of Opera, some sites will display their logo as preview image, while other sites just a screenshot of how the site looks when you add it to speed dial. I ...
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What version of IE does Compatibility View use by default?
My understanding of IE Compatibility Mode/View is that you can specify which version of IE you want to render a domain (or set of domains) in.
But when I go to Tools >> Compatibility View ...
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“Index of …” directory's files listing
On my courses we've got homework on site in folders such as:
http://example.com/files/tasks1-edc34rtgfds
http://example.com/files/tasks2-0bg454fgerg
http://example.com/files/tasks3-h1dlkjiojo8
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How to force browsers/ISPs to look for my new DNS?
I have changed the DNS for my domain.
what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old?
is ...
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At what visitor share do you stop supporting a given browser?
I'm lead dev for a large website which has a higher than average percentage of IE6 users - about 4.4% of our audience. Our new version is going to make use of progressive enhancement - including ...
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Does Google's browser size statistic include mobile devices?
I'm trying to figure out a perfect size for my HTML5 game area, with the help of Google's browser size statistics, but it seems as I need to restrict myself to such small dimensions because, ...
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jQuery causes high CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Entry Processes on host
When it's just me testing my site (which is live) I have a few jQuery bits and bobs causing the CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Entry Processes to become full on host server.
CPU Usage: 100%
Memory ...
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Photo Gallery Software - reads from a local directory - watches folder- user and group permissions [closed]
Use Case:
Photos are organised in a folder structure by date (by software lightroom/picasa)
Want to run a local webserver to host a web gallery from (already know how to run lamp etc)
I want to be ...
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Forcing browser to load new image
I have recently been doing some image replacement work for a client, he sends me the new image png files and I upload them replacing the old ones with the new ones ( keeping the same name ). I tell ...
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Why don't people upgrade their browsers?
Any web designer/developer will know that we have to make our code backwards-compatible with a number of (much) older browsers, just to cater for those that haven't updated. My question is.. why don't ...
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input type=“file” default language is system language?
I have a question, let's say I have <input type="file" name="image" />. Will the text of the button will change if user will have different language as his system default one? If so than how can ...
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Browser testing - Ideas on how to tackle it efficiently
Browser testing, the bane of any web designers life!
Are there any tools and/or ways in which I can efficiently test different browsers on both Mac and PC?
I not only want to test different browsers ...
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is it possible to get browser marketshare by OS?
For development purposes, I'd like to get a rough estimate of the distribution of browser usage share, but everything I've been able to find just states overall market share. Is it possible to get ...
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How can I tell how many iOS 3 users are accessing my website?
I would like to know how many iOS 3.2 (and presumably below) users are accessing my website. The reason is because iOS 3.2 had a maximum cache limit of around 25.6k, and files larger than this size ...
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How Wide-Spread is Browser Support of .PNG Graphics
We are deploying a web application and I am considering replacing some of the JPEG graphics with PNG.
Has the use of PNG-aware browsers passed 95%?
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Broken Links in different browsers
Hi I'm having problems with our website, http://www.accessiblehomehealthcare.com, which is a wordpress 2.7 (version). All of a sudden our RSS links broke on the right side, which has happened before ...
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How to correctly deal with corporate customers that have outdated browsers
Many of our customers are on corporate networks where they have no control over their browser versions, etc.
We have a Wordpress site that doesn't play well with IE8.
We cannot inform the customers ...
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Is it just me or are the browser companies changing their upgrade frequency to max? [closed]
This has been happening for a while now and in our office we believe the crazy browser updates are due to HTML5 becoming so hot these days but is there another reason the browser companies are pushing ...
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Progressive JPEG
This Post: "Progressive" JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons? stat that many browsers do not support Progressive JPEG citing this Wikipedia Article.
What ...
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Defense against rude web crawlers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots?
I had an incident yesterday where my web site was taken down by a web crawler that was ignoring my robots.txt. I'm pretty sure ...
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Amazon Silk…How will it effect web development [closed]
Today Amazon announced a new browser for their upcoming Kindle Fire. (Like we need another browser...) In developing websites we add code like -webkit- or -moz- for browser specific styles. Any ideas ...
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Clear the cache of the last visited page
I have an HTML page that has shows if a server is online of offline via an IFRAME transcluding a php file.
If someone clicks on a link, like to turn the server on or off and presses the Back button ...
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What is the best way to show your users that they use an incompatible browser?
As developer, i stopped making hacks for IE to let the page look like in other browsers (especially for IE7 and IE8). The javascript engine of IE8 is slower than IE7, IE8 shows the page better. I ...
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Is it (still) advisable to use the PHP extension html tidy?
Currently i'm using latest stable version of PHP, webmastering a online shop with Doctype XHTML.
Most of our customers use "old" browsers, 25% use IE8, 10% use IE7, 3% IE6 (however, IE6 never ...
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Universal same-origin policy
Here is something I have been wondering about for the longest time. It seems very simple, but to this day I do not know any practically usable technology.
Is there a way that I can browse the ...
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Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views?
Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views of websites displayed in google search results?
or
give us the page views of websites opened in ...
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How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work
How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work, in case the user's browser crashes.
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What is the best browser usage statistics source?
I wonder about what source of browser usage statistics is most reliable and updated.
I've been using
Google Analytics (with use of my analytics enabled pages)
W3 Counter
Stat Counter
but they ...
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Is it a good idea to recommend browser on a e-commerce web site
I have built an e-commerce app but I didn't have a lot of time so I decided to build the app compatible with cutting-edge browsers.
so of the features are not working and some them are working less ...
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Is it possible for a web-server to send more files than requested for, and have the browser accept them?
I've created a basic web server for a school project, and it serves static content without a problem.
I thought of having the server parse all htm/html files for links to .js/.css/image files, and ...
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Liquid Layout out of Proportion
I am using a liquid layout on my website, but when I view in in my browser I find that when I change the browser window size, the images are stretched out of proportion. Can anybody help?
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Why is Internet Explorer seemingly work different then other browsers?
For the past two weeks I have been painfully revising and changing my webpage to run in IE.
I was happy to see my page working properly on Safari 4 & 5, Chrome 10-13, and FF 3.6-4.0
BUT
I ...
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Changing default browser font-size affecting 3 divs floated inside a header div
Changing a web browsers default font size from 16px adversely affects the layout of the 3 divs that I have floated within my header div. Considering that the 3 header divs are fixed elements and not ...
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Problem with browser caching images
I'm sure many site admins must deal with this sort of problem all the time, but I don't have a really good and simple solution myself. It is what happens when you overwrite an existing image on the ...
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Website to send clients browser settings via email
A while ago I stumbled across a website that allowed you to enter an email address and have things like your browser type, version, build, javascript settings, flash version etc emailed through. I ...
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Max height to avoid vertical scrollbar on notebook resolutions
So, the most popular notebook resolution is 1366x768.
The viewport height (the height that is available for the web-site in the browser) depends on the operating system and the browser. For ...
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a css or js of same name from multiple sites or multiple pages of same site
When a css/js refers on a webpage it is first downloaded to client machine. From the next time it is referred from browser cache (if it presents). Please tell me
What happens when multiple sites ...
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Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?
The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm.
I'm trying to determine if I ...
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Can a 403 error ever be client side?
I've got a well-established web application. It's working for lots of people with a variety of browsers and platforms. But, there's this one guy...
He's getting a "403 Forbidden" on his side, I've ...
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What browser or bot has the user agent of “SD-1.30.1”?
I have tried checking on Google but to no avail. Does anyone recognize this user agent?
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Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?
I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different.
As a webmaster, ...
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A tool for test webpages in older Browsers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?
Hi,
at the moment I develop a ASP.Net Page Community board.
I have installed FF4, IE9 and Opera 10.
A ...
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Annoying IE6. Black screen with “loading” when youtube is added
I have had this problem for quite some time. It wasn't actually a big issue until lately when one of our conference site has a lot of IE6 users.
The black loading screen appears right after I include ...
