I am working on a web application that needs silent printing (without print dialog box) with client side printer.
After some research we found that we can make it work using ActiveX and Foxit Reader.
Currently it works great but it constraints us with IE only and we want to make it work with Firefox and Chrome as well.
I know there is no direct code to make it work, but there must a work around?
What I need is the point to start e.g. Chrome/Firefox plugins to access local printer - or make windows service that runs in background in the client side, change browser settings, use ActionScript etc.
It will also be great if someone also illustrate how Facebook access local webcam from its website it may make about accessing clients peripherals from website. Thanks in advance.
For anyone who still wants information regarding printing on Chrome and/or FireFox without the use of ActiveX, extensions or client-side scripting, please see my answer to another question similar to this.
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I used a translator, so I apologize in advance for the text is not smooth.
I want to close parentheses using the edit/closebrackets.js addon to Code Mirror.
However, while it works normally on PC, the corresponding add-on does not work on mobile.
Where do I need to modify the addon's code to make it work properly on mobile?
Or is there a better mod?
Please forgive me if this answer is somewhere else on this site or online. If it is, I sure haven't found it in the past several days of searching.
What I am hoping to find is an "accurate" method of detecting a browser and redirecting to a simple, static page if not a recent browser.
The samples I have found until now often have not provided an accurate representation of the actual browser being used. For instance:
When testing with Navigator 9, I'll get a message that I'm using Firefox 2
When testing with Maxthon 3, it reports I'm using IE 9.
My site displays correctly in all the current browsers I've been testing it with. But I wish I could have a basic static page for those .01% who still are using an old browser for whatever reason. They could still get some basic information from my site, as well as encouraged to update to a more current browser.
If anyone has any useful suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate them.
Thanks so much.
Cheers,
David
Browser detection is never perfect, for a variery of reasons. If you are using jQuery, you should look into jQuery.browser.
I'd try to detect the browser on the server side and do an HTTP redirect if the browser is something non-standard. Most decent frameworks have functionality to detect the browser from the user agent string. Again, this is not perfect, mainly because of the data browsers report. Also, if Maxthon reports it's IE, that's because it is based on IE and therefore the layout engine should be the same.
So you either
support a small number of browsers and cater for their quirks, sending all other browsers to a basic page (this sucks for future versions of browsers because they might be standards-compliant but they will still display your very basic page), or
you have a standards-compliant page for all browsers and then you define alternatives for the ones that give you problems.
I'd go for the second option. It usually all boils down to one version for all browsers, and a number of hacks for various versions of IE. Also, remember to avoid padding in your CSS and use margins instead.
In the end, you probably shouldn't be testing for browsers and version numbers, but supported features. Try using Modernizr.
The $.browser property is deprecated in jQuery 1.3. On jQuery support site, they strongly recommend to use the detection feature (JQuery.support) instead of the jQuery.browser property.
Actually, this has been answered already in another question, please check here How can you detect the version of a browser?
We have an application that is built exclusively in dev mode using the embedded jetty server that comes with GWT. We also host on jetty.
There are a number of pages we use for development only to do things like simulate SSO requests, view emails that were sent through the system, and check what files are uploaded.
When we try to link from these pages into a GWT page the problem becomes that &gwt.codesvr=192.168.0.101:9997 is not included in the URL and we get the error message "GWT module 'YourApp' may need to be (re)compiled". Obviously I can paste in "&gwt.codesvr=192.168.0.101:9997" manually but is very annoying. Does anybody know of a way to detect you are in the embedded Jetty dev mode server and auto generate links to have the correct "&gwt.codesvr=192.168.0.101:9997" added on?
Try this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9122167/970308
I've updated this bookmarklet. It isn't perfect, but makes it quick while developing.
I suggest you create a Filter which will simply redirect you to an address with &gwt.codesvr=192.168.0.101:9997 as soon as you navigate to the one of the "development pages". If codesvr parameter is specific for each developer, each developer will have to set it in some cookie and filter will simply take this value from cookie.
I would like to test a webpage in multiple browsers, in my local machine. I see that most of the online services provide screenshots, but I cant really see what happens when i click a link on the webpage.
Are there any software where i can see how the webpage is actually functioning on user events like click etc.?
The only tool I known is Selenium
hope it helps!
What is the name of the IE plug in that someone can download (I think from Microsoft) that lets a developer (well, anyone who gets the plug-in, actually) to view the message traffic that goes on behind the scenes from the browser to the server? I saw this one in action but I forget its name. And I think, for the FireFox broswer, you can simply turn it on somehow without getting a plug in.
It cuts the browser window in half horizonally and the bottom half is also divided vertically and you can see the GET and POST messages as well as the complete header information that is sent to the server from the browser across the internet.
HttpWatch is a great plugin for IE, but it's not free. Microsoft also released a free tool called VRTA which works for all browsers, but isn't a plugin.
For firefox it's called Live HTTP Headers. Another option of course is WireShark.
Fiddler is from Microsoft.
http://fiddler2.com/fiddler2/