I couldn’t find solution for other browsers. When I posted this question, IE was on the higher priority and gladly I found one for it. If you have a solution for other browsers (firefox, safari, opera) please do share here. Thanks. VBSCRIPT is much more convenient than creating an ActiveX on VB6 or C#/VB.NET: <script … Read more
See: user-agent-string-history It all goes back to browser sniffing and making sure that the browsers are not blocked from getting content they can support. From the above article: And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not given frames. And Microsoft grew impatient, and did not wish to wait for … Read more
A MIME type is a label used to identify a type of data. It is used so software can know how to handle the data. It serves the same purpose on the Internet that file extensions do on Microsoft Windows. So if a server says “This is text/html” the client can go “Ah, this is … Read more
Wouldn’t the standard way be to check the user agent? Here’s a database of user agents you can use to detect mobile browsers.
Here’s what you need to do to enable Firefox immediately print without showing the print preferences dialog box. Type about:config at Firefox’s location bar and hit Enter. Right click at anywhere on the page and select New > Boolean Enter the preference name as print.always_print_silent and click OK. I found that somewhere and it helped … Read more
Update for the March 2018 Java Client Roadmap I encourage readers interested in this question to review the following Oracle Whitepaper: Java Client Roadmap Update The above paper outlines the official Oracle position on related technologies (JavaFX/Swing/AWT/Applets/WebStart), the dates until which it intends to support those technologies and which of those technologies it intends to … Read more
Create a new empty directory for a separate Chrome user profile. E.g. with mkdir ~/chrome-profile You specify the TZ environment variable. You can see the valid timezones for example here, in column TZ. To start Chrome, use these commands: for Mac OS X: TZ=’US/Pacific’ open -na “Google Chrome” –args “–user-data-dir=$HOME/chrome-profile” for Linux: TZ=’US/Pacific’ google-chrome “–user-data-dir=$HOME/chrome-profile”
It’s not possible, sadly. However, consider your applications navigation model. Are you using Post/Redirect/Get PRG Model? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get? This model is more back button friendly than the Postback model.
The 4K limit you read about is for the entire cookie, including name, value, expiry date etc. If you want to support most browsers, I suggest keeping the name under 4000 bytes, and the overall cookie size under 4093 bytes. One thing to be careful of: if the name is too big you cannot delete … Read more
RFC 2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1) states there is no limit to the length of a query string (section 3.2.1). RFC 3986 (Uniform Resource Identifier — URI) also states there is no limit, but indicates the hostname is limited to 255 characters because of DNS limitations (section 2.3.3). While the specifications do not specify … Read more