Questions tagged [browser]
an application for retrieving information on the web.
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Persistant Browser Display Settings for Users
I have a question about what's the best approach to handle persistent data for web apps.
I have a web app that is authenticating through an auth service. once authenticated it makes requests to the ...
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Need a deeper understanding of how a Virtual DOM is different from a real DOM
As all articles say the Virtual DOM is lightweight and allows us to update only those nodes that has to be updated, unlike the real DOM that updates the whole nodes structure.
So the first question: ...
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Is there a way to detect if the guest user on web page has opened my mobile application to enhance his user xp [closed]
I have a website and mobile applications Android & IOS, all platforms are connected to the same database, what we are trying to do is to enhance the user experience by showing him specific ...
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Javascript and payment security
I'm using a third party CRM application which allows you to build web forms using drag and drop widgets and the ability to add javascript code to manipulate those widgets.
I need to build a form to ...
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How to play sounds optimally in the browser?
I have a new site that allows you to play sounds of letters on click. Each letter produces a separate sound. I went from roughly 500kb for .wav files to around 30kb for each sound file. That's a lot ...
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Should file download preference be decided in front-end or back-end?
In the project I am working on we are building a feature where you have a file with 2 buttons. Button 1 opens the file in your browser, button 2 starts downloading the file. I see these as 2 distinct ...
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Why don't web browsers know the physical dimensions of a display?
CSS is a syntax for specifying the appearance of text and other web content, sizes and lengths are defined in pixels, however pixels have different sizes in different devices, this is the most notable ...
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How do I make my Browser Extension send a Selection it captured to a Database/Web App so it can be stored in the user's account?
I am building a Browser Extension that captures a Selection made by the user in any web page, and stores it in his account. I don't quite know how to proceed with this, however.
My initial thought ...
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How can a website get the phone number of the device used to call it?
I'm not registered with Facebook and I've never logged in to Facebook inside the browser I use, Today I enter the site facebook.com and see my actual phone number on the sign in page with this message:...
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How can I modify web content on a mobile browser?
I want to build a small extension for major browsers that modifies the HTML and CSS of certain pages. On a desktop browser, this can be accomplished easily. On mobile browsers, however, content-...
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The best way method to write an app that takes you to a web page that depends on the time in a browser app?
I'm not a software developer at all, but wondering if this would be a relatively simple project for creating an android shortcut.
My parents like doing the guardian quick crossword: https://www....
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How do browser extensions interact with web apps?
I want to build a browser extension that can read/write from the database that is behind my web app.
However, I don't really understand how that would work conceptually and what the best practices ...
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How to secure my browser application against malicious requests?
I'm working on an application which can be added to third party websites. This means that this app runs in the browsers of the users of a third party and I don't have control over what runs in their ...
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My browser extension modifies the DOM. How do I stop this from interfering with page scripts?
I'm writing a WebExtensions browser plugin that will modify the DOM of the current page when the user presses a button in the toolbar. More specifically, I need to insert HTML tags into the DOM. Even ...
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Using browsers to monitor changes in e-commerce pages
I've been looking at ways to monitor for changes in things like price and availability on e-commerce sites via visiting browsers, with three constraints:
the sites often don't have much ongoing ...
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