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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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 ...
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What is the best size to use to display full screen size of an application screenshot?
I want to maximize tbe size and avoid scroll bar or overflow for the maximum too.
What size do you recommend ?
I'm using lightbox.
Thanks
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Updating browser window title with Javascript [closed]
Can I target the window title with Javascript and have it update based on certain events?
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Screen resolutions and browser canvas sizes
I've yet to find the ultimate resource that lists 'all' browsers and the actual visible canvas size (excludes browser chrome) for content. The closest was a table in the O'reilly book Web Design in a ...
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Firefox remembering telephone number as username
I have a registration page which includes all the standard fields e.g. phone no, email etc.
The telephone and password are tab adjacent i.e. not physically adjacent but if you are tabbing it goes ...
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What browser is sending user agent beginning mozilla/5.0+, tramslates & into &
We've got a website which has been running for a few years now. One of our customers has just started having an intermittent problem. Looking at our iis6.0 logs the service works correctly when they ...
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How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?
Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not ...
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Should I tell visitors that their browser is out-of-date?
I have seen many sites like browser-update.org that provide small bits of JavaScript & CSS to implement in a page that inform a user through a yellow bar at the top of the page that their browser ...
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What is the best browser market share data source?
Browser market share is important to a webmaster, or at least it will be until IE6, 7 and 8 disappear (my guess is the year 2532, more or less).
What is the most trustable, versatile and ultimately ...
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How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?
How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?
Short of actually having every different browser version installed, is there any tool or service that can provide a preview?
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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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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%?
