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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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So now Google has said no to old browsers when can the rest of us follow suit?
Google recently announced that they will no longer support older browsers on Aug 1st:
For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the ...
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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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How can I browse the Web blind for a day?
"Close your eyes" isn't the answer I'm looking for, but +1 to you if it was your first thought.
I'm putting together an awareness campaign called Browse Blind. The goals are to:
Help sighted people ...
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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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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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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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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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Should I drop support for IE7?
IE9 is out the door, IE8 is on the rise, and IE6 is deemed gone by the internet.
What is the future of IE7? Should I continue to support it if I am launching a product in 6 months? I am afraid it ...
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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 ...
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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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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?
If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers.
Example:
1.1.1.1 A example.com
1.1.1.2 A example.com
1.1.1.3 A example.com
But how does web ...
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Browser window size statistics?
I was wondering, are there any statistics available on what size users have their browser set to nowadays? I know the screen resolutions (we have analytics, which shows those as well) but I doubt a ...
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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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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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How to open the JavaScript console in different browsers?
Updated on October 7th 2012
Chrome:
Press either CTRL + SHIFT + J to open the "Console" tab of the Developer Tools.
Alternative method:
Press either CTRL + SHIFT + I or F12 to open the ...
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Browsers with pop-up blocker enabled by default
I'm trying to convince a client that adding pop-up or pop-unders isn't worthwhile. The argument "pop-ups are annoying and your users won't return" doesn't work because it's not the kind of site that ...
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Detecting Browser Types?
My client has asked me to implement a browser detection system for the admin login with the following criteria, allow these:
Internet Explorer 8 or newer
Firefox 3.6 or newer
Safari 5 or newer for ...
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Print high resolution images from browser?
I have a packing slip that is generated with each order that I want to print and place in each shipped package. The images on the packing slip will not change and need to be high resolution for crisp ...
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Browser plugin for measuring PDF
Is there a browser plugin that can allow a user to measure objects on a PDF in the browser window? It needs to be cross-browser.
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Should sites be tested in both Chrome and Safari?
While recently doing testing for a new web project, it occurred to me that Safari and Chrome both use the Webkit engine, yet are produced by two different companies (Apple and Google).
Since it 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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With the following settings shown here, will there be any caching in Firefox?
browser.cache.disk.enable = false
browser.cache.memory.enable = false
network.http.use-cache = true
With the following settings above, will there be any caching in FF?
Does the disk.enable and ...
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Why does IE still save and update files in the temp folder when caching is off?
In IE I changed the cache setting to
"Every time I visit the web page"
However, I noticed in the directory
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
that the files are still being stored in here ...
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How to find the exact font used by the browser
I have used the css style sheet as font-family:arial,helvicta,sans-serif,etc... in a php file when i checked it in browser i dont know which font it is using from the font-family . i wanted to know ...
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Google Analytics shows 0 Visits?
I checked Analytics yesterday for pageviews, and had several hundred of them (for yesterday).
Not today when I check "Yesterdays" stats (which yesterday showed several hundreds), it shows 0...?
How ...
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Can I expect browsers to cache static content served over SSL encryption?
With all the talk about FireSheep I am thinking of switching my web applications to use full https accross the entire site. However, I am concerned about caching. I use a lot of JavaScript, CSS files, ...
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Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links
I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a ...
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How do you save/export changes made in Firebug?
Using Firebug to edit CSS, how do I save/export changes made to the CSS?
TOOLS: Firefox, Firebug
MAJOR UPDATE: If you know of a way to lock the forward/back/refresh on a FireFox tab, please let me ...
