Questions tagged [web-development]
Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or intranet.
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How can I make Chrome stop caching redirects?
I am working on a web application that is using redirects (for pretty URLs).
I am trying to debug logic in the way the redirects are working. However Google Chrome keeps remembering the redirects and ...
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Looking for HTTP debugging proxy for Mac similar to Fiddler on Windows [closed]
In previous jobs when I've worked on a Windows machine, I've used Fiddler for viewing HTTP transactions and debugging.
I'm specifically looking to monitor the HTTP transactions for an ajax site I'm ...
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How to force Internet Explorer (IE) to REALLY reload the page?
When using Internet Explorer 8 to test my web application I often find it doesn't reload the page, so I don't see my changes. This has resulted in a lot of wasted time and frustration wondering why my ...
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Chrome keyboard shortcut to pause script execution
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Google Chrome which will break script execution? (Equivalent to pressing the || "Pause script execution" button in the Developer Tools Scripts panel.)
I'd like to use ...
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Use the Chrome Devtools Console Filter to hide console errors caused by extensions
I would like to remove all the ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT errors I get due to AdBlock, so I thought the Filter field would be appripriate but I can't use it to reverse filter.
Basically what I want is ... ...
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How to manually install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows?
How do I install Apache with PHP support and the MySQL server on Windows without using any ready-to-use packages like WAMPServer or XAMPP ?
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I can't visit websites that have “.dev” domain
I'm trying to visit websites like https://get.dev, but instead of loading website, there appears "Resolving host" message and then I'm getting "This site can’t be reached get.dev’s server IP address ...
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How do I turn off caching in IIS7?
I'm developing an ASP classic site under Windows 7 (form a queue ladies). The problem is IIS seems to be heavily making use of its cache for both static and dynamic content which really conflicts with ...
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How can I tell if a screenshot was made in IE7 or IE8?
I have a screenshot of an IE web browser. My question is, how can I tell whether it's IE 7 or IE8?
I've looked on the net and all the different shots of 7 and 8 look the same.
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How to prevent Chrome from refreshing page when viewing source?
When viewing page source in Google Chrome, the browser opens a new tab and basically pastes the URL in with the view-source: prefix. This is undesirable.
As a developer, I may include some diagnostic ...
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Getting XAMPP to work with multiple version of PHP
How can I install XAMPP to work with different versions of PHP?
I use XAMPP because some of the scripts are buggy when run in WAMP. I use WAMP because it supports different versions of PHP.
But now ...
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Is it possible to see the DNS resolving query in Firefox developer tools?
Using the developer tools in Firefox one can see detailed information about requests to and responses from the webserver (HTTP header and content, timing information, status codes and so on).
I ...
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How to prevent prefers-reduced-motion setting from ever working in Chrome
Since Chrome version 74, prefers-reduced-motion media queries will be set with reduce value in case the user has disabled animations in controls inside Windows.
I'm on Win 10 and use mostly Chrome for ...
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Filter on request type in chrome dev tools (Network tab)
In previous versions of Chrome I've had a buttom toolbar in which I could filter on different kinds of requests.
It's the one shown here:
I can however not see it anymore. To my knowledge, I've not ...
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how to open fiddler saz files on mac or online?
a friend sent me a fiddler record for me to watch.
I have mac and the file he has sent is X.saz
I could install fiddler on mac. How can i open these files to watch?
online opening is good as well
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Access localhost on Mac OS X from Parallels machine
i need to test my web site, running on a local Mac, under several browsers in Windows.
I use Windows XP, installed in Parallels Desktop.
It would be great, when i will be able to access my http://...
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notepad++ - Applying CSS styles for SCSS files?
In Notepad++, I have some SCSS files for which I would like the syntax to be highlighted like CSS files are. How do I do this in Notepad++?
In other words, I would like to apply the same styles to ...
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What is the maximum size of a cookie, and how many can be stored in a browser for each web site?
I am learning about cookies, and I wonder about browser support:
For each domain/web site, how many cookies may be sent to a browser, and of what size?
If multiple cookies are sent and stored, does ...
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Chrome developer tools - network panel gaps
In the Chrome developer tools, under the network tab, I'm curious to know what is happening during the gaps. If you look at my image below, I have highlighted in orange the areas where these gaps ...
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How can I find out with which software a web page was written?
I'd like to know which software was used for the development of the web page from hotel.info.
How can I do it? Is there any tool for Firefox that could help me finding out this information?
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How to install Eclipse Web Tools on Eclipse Classic?
I'm using eclipse 3.5.2 classic, and I'd like to install Eclipse Web Tools, but I can't find a url for which to install it.. can anyone find that? or does it not exist?
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How can I open listen ports on an Amazon EC2 instance?
I'm using Amazon EC2 micro instance with Ubuntu 11.04 on it (official AMI by Canonical). I have created a new security group for this instance:
Inbound:
22 (SSH) 0.0.0.0/0
80 (HTTP) 0.0.0.0/0
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Linux for work, virtualized Windows for games?
Hello,
as a freelance developer I recently found myself severely bound by the memory limit of 32-bit operating systems, and I need to upgrade to a 64-bit system in order to continue working ...
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How can I develop for Safari 6 without buying a mac?
I've always found that just developing in Windows, and using Safari for Windows has been sufficient.
However, Safari 6 has now been released, and I've got at least one user who has contacted me, ...
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Project Management Tools? [closed]
I'm looking for a better PM tool. Something like http://www.axosoft.com/ontime where it looks more like a e-mail client but preferably web hosted.
Any recommendations?
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Disable Chrome scaling
So I have this small box display in Chrome
<div style="width:100px;height:100px;background:red"></div>
But it's in fact 130px big. Chrome is scaling all web because of my 1080p monitor.
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Chrome Dev Tools: automatically turn on network recording
I want to have network recording already on during development of a webpage, so that when I open Chrome Dev Tools, it already has the info without having to reload.
Currently if I open the Network ...
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Performance issues when using SSD for a developer notebook (WAMP/LAMP stack)?
I'm a web application developer using my notebook as a standalone development environment (WAMP stack). I just switched from a Core2 Duo Vista 32-bit notebook with 2GB RAM and SATA HDD, to an i5-2520M ...
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How to remove scrollbars in Notepad ++
How do I make all the code visible without scrolling horizontally, so that all my code floats vertically like in Dreamweaver?
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what's the HTML entity code for "«"
What's the HTML entity code for the character that looks like "«" (but it's not the less-than sign)
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Tidy rendered HTML output in Chrome's View Source?
More often than not when using things like CMS'es and static site generators, HTML output looks like rubbish (wrong indendation being the most annoying flaw).
Is there any solution for having ...
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Can't scale Google Crome lower then 500px width
I started programming about 6 months ago. When I started I was able to scale my google chrome down to a 400px width. As I started to max more website I was only able to scale my website down to 438px. ...
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Map Local (like Charles Proxy) using Open Source
Is there a way to use Wireshark or some other freeware to get an outcome like one gets when using Charles' Map Local capability?
The way it works in Charles is that you can specify a set of files/...
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Going overseas for while and using internet cafes, which precautions to take against keyloggers etc?
Ok lets say I'm taking an extended overseas trip and won't have a laptop with me. Reasons being it'll be too heavy to carry and also the country I'm in isn't very safe for carrying expensive items ...
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Browser where I can add my own custom CSS or Javascript
Is there a way to load my own custom CSS or Javascript while using a browser?
When I'm accessing a website or developing a website I want to load my own custom scripts from my computer. I know this ...
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http://localhost:3000 works, but http://127.0.0.1:3000 doesn't
I'm building a Rails application on my local dev machine. When running my local server, I can access http://localhost:3000 without a problem. However, when I try to navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3000, ...
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What does the new inspect element bring to Firefox that Firebug does not have?
When doing web development with Firefox I've always used the Firebug add-on. Now with the upgrades to Firefox, there is a new built in feature of 'Inspect Element'. What does this new feature bring to ...
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Viewing Server-Sent Events in Firefox
SSE is a simple and straight-forward alternative to WebSockets when you need a one-way channel for events coming from the server.
In Chrome Dev Tools' Network tab, you can click the resource (url) ...
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Firefox 47 Storage dev tool not working. Just me?
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I've just upgraded Firefox to 47. No matter which site I go to, the Storage tab in dev tools always says "No data present for selected host". Can anyone else replicate?
Go to this ...
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What is the difference between the always-reloading and not-so-often-reloading websites?
This is one way I can classify websites:
a) those that reload on every little matter - you add a comment-they reload, the live score updates-they reload the whole page, instead of just the score..
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Is there a simple Load Balancer app for development environment on Windows?
Does there exist a simple Load Balancer app for development on Windows? I am running a pair of JBoss 5.x instances in a cluster on a single machine. Normally , this configuration is load balanced ...
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How do I get the 'average' colour of a texture?
I have one background texture that is a wood grain, and I have a menu hover background colour that I would like to match the overall tone of the texture as closely as possible. Using a tool such as ...
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What is this type of UI component called?
What is this kind of UI component called? I think it makes more sense in certain cases than a set of radio buttons and I'd like to create a similar component for a web app I'm developing. I just want ...
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Visual Studio 2010, how can I start only one web project in a solution when debugging?
In Visual Studio 2005, choosing to debug a specific web project only starts an ASP.NET Development Server for the project selected.
In Visual Studio 2010, debugging starts an ASP.NET Development ...
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How do I (near) simultaneously make use of 2 different DNS systems/servers?
I often have to switch what IP a name resolves to in order to do certain tasks when constructing or more specifically moving websites/web apps, to a new platform/server.
Many times I have to go back ...
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Firefox 11 3D Dom viewer not available
I've got Firefox 11 running in Windows 7, and the 3D DOM viewer doesn't appear for me; it's not an option in the Developer Tools. I know where to look, because I've used it on another computer under ...
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How to customize screen resolution reported to a JavaScript application by a web browser?
window.screen.availHeight and window.screen.availWidth values let web applications to know my actual screen resolution while I don't always want them to know it. Can I set my own values for these ...
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What free online alternatives are there to FrontPage? [closed]
What's the best free online alternative to Microsoft FrontPage?
I'm going to make a website for a friend, who will need to be able to edit it himself. All that's needed is something to create/edit ...
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Disabling cache selectively for development on Chrome
Is there any way to disable the cache on Google Chrome for certain aspects only, in such a way that images for instance remain cached but markup/js/css don't?
I'm working on a rather graphic ...
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Firefox "forget site" functionality or add-on
Does there exist any add-on for Firefox for selectively removing history (cache, cookies) for certain sites only?
This would be useful for web development to clear the browser state regarding the ...
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