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Tag Archives: browser
Shortcut: Create a spot in the Mac OSX Dock for a Chrome link
At my new job, I have had the luxury of using a Macbook Pro for my work computer instead of a Windows machine. Overall this has been a significant upgrade, but there have been a handful of areas that I … Continue reading
Solved: IE encounters ERROR_INTERNET_INCORRECT_HANDLE_STATE when opening a popup window
One of our engineers asked me to take a look at a bizarre problem in an application. When accessing the application using IE8, they would click a link that opens a popup window. Rather than the popup window loading, the … Continue reading
Solved: browser cookies vanish in IE8 when opening a new window to a different sub-domain
I’ve been working with a user at one of our clients who was encountering a most puzzling issue. They would be logged into one of our applications, and then they would invoke some functionality that was hosted off of another … Continue reading
Consolidate all your logins and passwords into a single account using LastPass
Over the last few years, I’ve had to create logins at well over 100 different websites. Some of these I use heavily, like Google, Facebook, or Twitter, and others I use only rarely, like AAA or Consumer Reports. Yet for … Continue reading
Determine a linux server’s public ip address from the command line
We were recently setting up a linux server to integrate with a partner of ours, and we found that it was unable to connect to the remote server. Our first suspicion was that our partner was blocking any ip addresses … Continue reading
HTML Shortcut: Dynamically populate a select list drop down when it is first clicked
e were recently making some modifications to a configuration options page. The page was set up a type of table, where each record had its own row, and each column represented a different type of data that could be edited. … Continue reading
HTML Shortcut: Dynamically switch to RTL mode based on the opener #localization #l10n
As we were working on adapting one of our applications to support right-to-left (RTL) languages like Hebrew and Arabic, we tripped over an issue with a static HTML document. Changing a page to by RTL is pretty easy. You can … Continue reading
Solved: Printing using CTRL+P stops working in IE8 on Windows 7 after modifying security settings
Many of our customers are large, global organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees and thousands of locations. With such a vast infrastructure, their IT organizations take great pains to keep their computers stable and secure. While in theory only … Continue reading
Performance Tuning: Clear hidden form variables to avoid unnecessarily large post backs #browser #html #javascript
To create rich web applications, it is fairly common to encode data in JSON on the server and then manipulate it using javascript on the client. For example, when creating a rich Datatable in YUI, rather than rendering the data … Continue reading
Chrome App Store has potential, but feels like the right product at the wrong time
Having spent some time playing around with Google’s new Chrome web store, I can see what they are going for, but I’m still not sure that there is a need for it. At least not yet. Apple has already proven … Continue reading
