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September

18

Override “Print Background Colors and Images” Option in Browser

Internet Explorer and Firefox, to name a few, have an option that allows for the printing of background colors and images. The user can check this option to override the print style sheet and print the backgrounds that were removed to increase legibility, protect copyright, or whatever other reason was necessary. By default, this option [...]

September

7

Session Timeout Warning PHP Example with jQuery/JS

Updated 11-Jan-2010: Improved ability to adjust timeouts and simplified code a bit. Detecting and warning a user of their session timing out can come in handy and, in some cases, may be necessary. Here is one way of doing this with jQuery/javascript and PHP. There may be a better way to do this, so take [...]

August

3

Internet Explorer (IE) Not Submitting Form on Enter

While working on a ColdFusion application, I noticed that the login form was not submitted when enter was pressed in Internet Explorer. Other browsers, Firefox and Chrome specifically, did not have this issue. There are many methods used to fix this error if you Google it, but I found that the simplest solutions are usually [...]

July

29

ColdFusion Dropping, Losing, or Resetting Session Variables and CFID/CFTOKEN

Actually, this is not ColdFusion’s fault; it is a browser issue. Here’s what happens: A user logins into your application, navigates through it, and then, inexplicably, gets booted out or not recognized. Sometimes it is just one page that seems to be the problem, sometimes several. Sometimes it is one browser, say IE, and not [...]

June

14

Test Drivin’ Safari 4

I gave Safari 4 a whirl on both Mac and PC. I like it. It brings much of the cool stuff from iTunes into the browser. Cover flow is fun and fresh in a browser. The Top Sites with the page previews is an upscale rip off of Chrome and, really, it’s a good feature [...]

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