I think it depends what your motivation is. For example, in the mobile web sector what you are attempting to do is provide the user with something that looks sensible on their platform. Why be concerned about what user-agent the user is reporting, when it is purely for their own benefit? If they go to … Read more
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.
Well after further research, the answer is: No, it’s not possible right now to get a mobile device id number from its browser… A solution I found is to generate a “unique” number (in my case I worked with php, so I used the session_id() number mixed with a number generated with the rand() function, … Read more
You can manage $language_suffix by this setting when you cannot add AcceptLanguageModule module into your system. rewrite (.*) $1/$http_accept_language A more resilient approach would use a map: map $http_accept_language $lang { default en; ~es es; ~fr fr; } … rewrite (.*) $1/$lang;
Take a look over at this answer by kmote. Highlight is that the browser looks at the field’s name tag and makes an educated guess at what sort of data would go there (regex matching is a good naive way to do this). Chrome is working to get some sort of standardization so that this … Read more
You can use typescript-script : https://github.com/basarat/typescript-script However do not do this in production as it is going to be slow. You can use webpack (or a similar module bundler) to load npm packages in the browser.
There are a few ways that you can detect the presence of WebAssembly. The basic one is to check whether WebAssembly if of type “object” in the global scope, but “global scope” is a tricky thing to get to in different JavaScript environments (main browser thread, worker, node.js). Doing so is also not technically sufficient … Read more
There are some push technologies, such as Comet, but they’re not widely implemented. Most of the time this is accomplished via polling at some small interval with AJAX and downloading any new messages that are available since the last downloaded message.
Oh, I didn’t see the “User Preferences” section in the mdn documentation. 🤦🏻♂️ For Firefox, the reduce request is honoured if: In GTK/Gnome, if gtk-enable-animations is set to false. This is configurable via GNOME Tweaks (Appearance tab or General tab, depending on version). Alternately, add gtk-enable-animations = false to the [Settings] block of the GTK … Read more
Wow. I know this was asked over 4 years ago, but having burnt the better part of a week in search of a robust method of printing labels from a web app, I had to voice in here. Here’s what I’ve found: DYMO seems the most likely candidate for excellence. But no, turns out it … Read more