How to keep changed form content when leaving and going back to HTTPS page? (works with HTTP)

You can consider the following solutions: The autocomplete Attribute (HTML5) This seems unrelated since autocomplete tells the browser to complete fields with the values based on earlier user input which were “submitted” with the form. But in my tests I saw that; after filling out the form without submitting; when I hit the forward (history) … Read more

How to find default browser set on android device

This code may help you: Intent browserIntent = new Intent(“android.intent.action.VIEW”, Uri.parse(“http://”)); ResolveInfo resolveInfo = getPackageManager().resolveActivity(browserIntent,PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY); // This is the default browser’s packageName String packageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName; and if wanna start it, do as follows: startActivity(getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage(packageName));

How do I find out the browser’s proxy settings?

The function you’re looking for is WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser(), which is documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384096(VS.85).aspx. This function is used by Firefox and Opera to get their proxy settings by default, although you can override them per-browser. Don’t do that, though. The right thing to do (which is what everybody else does) is to just get the IE settings … Read more

How do browsers read and interpret CSS?

CSS rendering is an interesting topic and all the competitors are thriving hard to speed up the view layer (HTML and CSS) rendering to deliver the best results to the end users at a blink of an eye. Firstly, yes different browsers have their own CSS parser/Rendering engines Google Chrome, Opera (from version 15) – … Read more

How to specify your webpage’s language so Google Chrome doesn’t offer to translate it

Google Chrome currently requires several tags to make an (HTML5) document opt out of translation. Before doing this, you should be sure that you know your audience’s language, as otherwise it will prevent foreign sites from properly translating your site. The relevant tags are: <meta charset=”UTF-8″ /> <meta name=”google” content=”notranslate” /> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en_US” /> … Read more