As it’s Halloween, it’s only relevant that I share a method of covering your browsers identity.
Interested in knowing your current User-Agent, just visit one of the following:
Many robots and spiders that are used by search engines also identify themselves by their User-Agent, if you see this activity in your logs you can often learn more about it at:
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Happy Halloween!
There are often circumstances where you do not want users to select certain text on your page in order to maintain a facade… rounded buttons for example.
In most browsers, this can be achieved using CSS (much of it proprietary below), For IE and Opera, you will need to use the unselectable expando property of the element you wish to be unselectable.
You can set this using an attribute in HTML:
<div id="foo" unselectable="on" class="unselectable">...</div>
<style type="text/css">
.unselectable {
-webkit-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-o-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
</style>
Sadly this property isn’t inherited, meaning you have to put an attribute in the start tag of every element inside the
function makeUnselectable(node) {
if (node.nodeType == 1) {
node.unselectable = true;
}
var child = node.firstChild;
while (child) {
makeUnselectable(child);
child = child.nextSibling;
}
}
makeUnselectable(document.getElementById("foo"));
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I’ve found that many developers still use the classic coding style on JSP’s, unfortunately this makes it difficult to use some common tools for validation and complicates matters when looking for improperly nested tags in the markup. Migrating the XML formatted JSP markup simplifies matters and makes it possible for developers to quickly identify many problem areas of code within the IDE.
<%@ page language="java" %> = <jsp:page.directive language="java" />
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" %> = <jsp:page.directive contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<%@ page import="" %> = <jsp:page.directive import="" />
NOTE: you can combine page.directive’s to a single tag with all attributes.
<% //some scriptlet %> = <jsp:scriptlet>//some scriptlet</jsp:scriptlet>
<%! String somevalue="1"; %> = <jsp:declaration>String somevalue="1";</jsp:declaration>
<%= somevalue %> = <jsp:expression>somevalue</jsp:expression>
<jsp:include page="" />
<jsp:directive.include file="" />
<jsp:useBean id="" scope="" type="" />
<jsp:setProperty name="" />
Unfortunately, there’s one common type of tag that does not have an XML equivalent:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/c.tld" %>
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Happy coding
It’s not uncommon to find yourself working on applications that were often build before the widespread adoption of CSS. Alongside legacy <table> based designs, the use of various mechanisms to prevent word-wrapping are often implemented.
I’ve found that the following allows for low-risk transition between technologies…
<style type="text/css">
table.nobr tr th, table tr.nobr th, table tr th.nobr, table thead.nobr tr td, table tbody.nobr tr td,
table.nobr tr td, table tr.nobr td, table tr td.nobr, table thead.nobr tr td, table tbody.nobr tr td,
.nobr {white-space:nowrap;}
</style>
With the above approach, you can apply class="nobr" to any element directly, for <table>‘s I’ve taken it a little further and allowed for the class to be set at various levels in the heirarchy to fill various needs.
With the recent rapid release cycle (currently every 6 weeks) for Firefox, it’s a good idea for developers and testers to use the upcoming release versions before they are released to the general public.
For Windows users, you can download and install an appropriate version from:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/
On Ubuntu, it’s a little more difficult, but rather straight-forward:
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That’s all…. Happy Testing!
I’ve used a variety of means to connect to remote machines. Long ago, PCAnywhere was common place, later replaced by VNC and Windows Remote Desktop (RDP). As I’ve migrated nearly all of my work to Ubuntu, I’ve found that VNC is generally too slow, and SSH alone only gives access to my command line environment. NX over SSH allows for efficiently visual access to my entire desktop and all accessories remotely, regardless of my client system.
Setup on the server/host system only takes a few minutes, but is only available on Linux and Solaris. Installation of SSH on the host is required first.
Setup of the client is even easier, and is available for Linux, OS/X and Windows.
NOTE: A “NX Free Edition” is available for use.
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SEO is always a tricky matter as it’s always changing, way back in 2007 Yahoo! added a means to ‘hide’ specific content on your page from it’s spider with the user of a CSS class that can be used anywhere on your page. True…. this can be abused, but is generally good to keep common content such as navigation and/or ads out of the index. Unfortunately, only Yahoo! supports this.
class="robots-nocontent"
Flash objects often interfere with your layering within your DHTML applications and appear above them in the DOM stacking order, standard CSS and HTML solutions do not have any impact. Fortunately there is a simple solution to this ‘problem’ thats been supported in all common browsers since MSIE4.
On <object>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
In <embed ... wmode="transparent" >
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