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Recently I have been having a problem. I started learning a new language a couple of Month ago (Swedish) and decided to set some stuff up in Swedish. I cant remember what settings I changed to Swedish but I changed a few settings in Google and chrome on my android phone to set the language to Swedish for language learning. But recently I decided to change everything back to English.
The problem I am having is that even though I have now set every single Google setting I can think of back to English including G+, chrome settings, clearing caches, chrome settings (desktop+android) and also Google settings in android, for some reason the default language on web-pages is still Swedish even if I'm not logged in, and even if I change the website language manually by going to the bottom of the page when I come back later it will be back to Swedish. Also all CAPTCHA e.g. "I am not a robot" etc are in Swedish and many Google apps and web-pages are as well even if I am signed in such as the Chrome app store.None of my settings now include Swedish as a secondary language and yet websites still display in it. I tried to look further by using the website validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/. This shows me that Accept-Language: sv-SE,sv;q=0.9,en-GB;q=0.8,en;q=0.7 basically that Swedish language is preferred, why?
Tried:
Changing all Google language settings to English
Changing Chrome settings to English
Setting Android settings to English
Reinstalling Chrome
Clearing Cache & Cookies
This problem is legitimately melting my brain at this point as it affects my experience on multiple devices and sometimes websites don't have manual language selection, this is why I suspect it is to do with Google settings or locales but I have changed all settings I could find to do with language.And no, the "Quick Language Switcher" app doesn't do anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated !
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My Problem Shown On Chrome Store (I blanked my mail address)
Chrome Language Settings
Google Account Settings
(also I'm sorry if I have tagged this wrong - I'm not sure which ones to use)
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Some will think this is not related to programming but I think it is, because most of the time when I encounter programming issues I search on Google to find solutions or ways to do what I plan to do before I start writing it from scratch. Let's face it, we all copy pasters...
I don't like to remove my hands from the keyboard. Google had a feature after you submit a query and press Tab it will start navigating within the search results. Most likely because they had a tabindex attribute which was was removed.
Does anyone know why sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't? I'm starting to think I should create a Chrome app that will add the tab index to the results, but I don't want to do it before I am 100% sure this feature was removed.
As of 2017-07-31, Google removed this feature entirely from search.
I created the open source Web Search Navigator extension to fix this and add extra features (like configurable keyboard shortcuts).
See installation instructions.
Hope you find it useful, but in any case - feedback is welcome!
Finally I manage to figure it out!!!
if you are using google search settings in Hebrew this awesome feature is not available, so I changed the search settings to english and it works great!
https://www.google.com/preferences
small update thanks #Sanook it looks like the instant results also need to be enabled, I checked it several times and seems that lang should be defined as English and instant results need to be enabled.
2017-07-31 update
It looks like now google abandoned the instant results feature which is causing the whole search navigation via keyboard to be unsupported.
I posted in their forum and hope it will comeback sometime...
search-forum
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-keyboard-sh/iobmefdldoplhmonnnkchglfdeepnfhd/reviews
Chrome plugin which emulates what Google Instant results used to do. TABing between results is back :-)
There is also a Chrome Extension called RESULTER, which does not solve the exact problem described in the question, but provides good search results navigation anyway.
You can download it from Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/resulter-shortcuts-for-se/chojfhfgbdaeokblbdeahgbijodikdpk
Official website: https://getresulter.com
The down arrow works for me. Pressing the down arrow once moves focus to the first result then again will continue through the results.
Tab will gradually cycle through items on the page: Google logo, search box, menu items then eventually to the search results.
Chrome Version 51.0.2704.103 (64-bit)
OSX 10.5.5
Macbook Pro
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Yahoo web mail (mail.yahoo.com) is stripping out these inline styles, but keeping things like color and padding.
text-decoration
font-size
border-radius
text-align
font-family
Any idea why these are purposely being removed?
Example:
<span style="font-size:30px;">Hello</span>
becomes:
<span style>Hello</span>
What can be done?
This is the difficult part because options are few. Even with free market choices well established corporate entities have little to no business reasons to improve their products unless competition comes along. You could always attempt to file a bug report (like, where if even any where though...) and as usual wait decades for a(n intelligent) response (*cough* Mozilla *cough*). You could attempt to work around the issue (replace width with min-width in example). I've noticed that font-size: 120%; works just fine so consider what unit values you're using for testing.
You can make a different though, even if it's relatively small. I was wronged by a motherboard manufacturer in the mid-2000s and since then they've lost tens of thousands of dollars of sales because of me directly and who knows how much more based on the video I posted back then and that is just in the past ten years. The issue with Yahoo is different, at best all you can do is write a blog entry and link to other people talking about the issue to raise awareness. You could go so far as to disallow registrations from users with Yahoo accounts or greatly discourage users from using Yahoo accounts though that could lead to a loss of members so I wouldn't do something like that unless you've got something people really want. The state of HTML email in general is exceptionally sad at this point though most (at least technical users) typically have multiple email addresses.
You could always use <style type="text/css"></style> even though scoped CSS is not widely supported in 2017 except for Gecko/Firefox though it did seem to fix some of the issues for me that you mentioned you were having.
Lastly you can always provide a "view this email on our website" option; I see it all the time because HTML email is still a disaster (2017). I've even seen nonsense with developers sending email with html element (uh, it's not an entire page, it will be embedded, but you know, whatever...).
So try utilizing different unit values and even the contexts themselves. Inline-styling is the way to go and if that fails provide a website version of the email (with security considerations for email with sensitive data).
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If I have an html file on a web server without any links in it and without any links pointing to it anywhere, will Google be able to see it? Will Google be able to promote it?
Generally, Google and other search engines find new pages to add to their indices by following links from one web page to another.
Some search engines, including Bing and Google, also allow webmasters to submit URLs directly, meaning that your site may get indexed even if there are no links pointing to it from the “outside world”. (Links like these are called “inbound links” in the trade.)
Short answer: No, probably.
Longer answer: For the most part, search engines like Google work by following links around, not by guessing what URLs are on your server. As long as the HTML file isn't a well-known name like "index" or "home" or another value used as a default index page by web servers, then it's unlikely to be included in a search index. (disclaimer: I don't work for Google and search algorithms are proprietary, so they may actually have some URL-guessing going on)
However, if you're relying on that behavior to protect something you don't want to be seen until you're ready to promote it, your gonna have a bad time. History is full of examples of companies that decided to "hide" a URL that it wasn't ready to promote, only to be foiled by someone editing the URL string in their browser to troll for hidden content.
In general, if you really have not links to it, the answer is NO. HTTP has no command for getting directory listing. (Well, I don't discussing the possibility of google spying via chrome browser). I you DON'T WANT google to see it, you can put it into a directory declared as forbidden in robots.txt to be 100% sure, and make sure that you server is set up not to give a directory index. If you WANT google to scan it, the only way to get it is to post a link to it somewhere.
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I spent a good amount of time looking but couldn't find an answer. Probably not using the right terms to search which is not helping. This is what I want to do: 1. I open a browser (specifically interested for IE8 if somebody wants to know). 2. I type 'Game', and nothing else, in the Address bar and hit Enter. 3. HTML file Game.html, which is present on my desktop, opens in my browser. Can this be done? If yes, how?
I have a feeling offering a heavy shell-driven-with-registry-manipulation is perhaps more than you'd like to chew (I could be wrong, you might delight in C++...).
So here's a fairly straight-forward method using the venerable .url in a Favorites folder:
game.url
[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=url
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,11
[InternetShortcut]
URL=file:\\\C:\path\to\game.html
IDList=
ShowCommand=3
IconIndex=1
IconFile=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\url.dll
HotKey=1601
[MonitoredItem]
PreviewSize=320x240
IsLivePreview=false
Save that with the given filename into:
C:\Users\[username]\Favorites\Links
And then type into the address bar and game.url should show up in the list below, under Favorites. I know, not quite what you are after. It's close and easy, and (bonus!) I believe you can specify a hotkey in the .url file and simply hotkey to open (if that floats your boat). I couldn't find a great reference to the .url filetype resource syntax, but there is (Legacy) Internet Shortcuts.
From here it gets trickier. That may involve creating a shell verb (think Open and Edit from the context menu), or maybe setting up a protocol handler (?) or a customer search term. It may look like a simple "address" bar, but especially in Internet Explorer, it handles all kinds of input, so it's a bit of a loaded question saying you want to enter term and get file without navigating all of that.
Chrome, however, would perhaps be a bit easier to manipulate with content scripts, so I'd look there first.
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I am developing a web application (meant to run work as a rich client and able to afford requiring any (even nightly build) version of Firefox of Chromium).
The application interface background is meant to be transparent (showing underlying windows or desktop). How can I achieve this? Following standards does not matter but would be nice.
Primary target platform is Linux.
UPDATE addressing comments and answers received to the moment of 2010-07-07T01:44Z.
Technically it's nothing about code interaction and breaking the "sandbox". It's about window composition. I even think it can be implemented pretty easy in a compositive window manager without a browser even knowing of this - just replace some useless colour (for example "fuchsia" was widely used for this during Windows 9x age) with the underlying layer content.
Politically, this can and should be a restrictable function (like local file and webcam access, for example), which can be allowed for trusted intranet applications (local web-tech-based rich client applications seem to be a trend beginning - Firefox and Chromium implement more and more features to facilitate this) and forbidden for unknown 3-rd party websites (but this would require more complex interaction between a browser and a window manager).
The reason why would I like it is that I want to build a cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac), zero-install, fancy-looking rich client application (not meant to be served as an Internet website) with web technologies (like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript). I even will probably seek to use some browser-window-less tech to run it (I've heard about Mozilla Prism and XulRunner, KDE and Windows offer to use HTML for desktop widgets, Chromium is meant to offer something alike, etc.)
This is not possible "currently", but there's no technical reason why a browser couldn't provide a proprietary API for this, using non standard html/css/js.
However, that's what it would take, a browser to actually implement this functionality and then expose it as an API, and even then it would be browser specific.
UPDATE (as some people have perhaps misunderstood my answer???):
I'm giving technical context to the question. Of course noone's ever going to implement this, but I'm saying it's technically possible.
Also, doing this would not break the sandbox model. The browser itself (forget an API for a second) could implement transparency any way it wanted. Once it that it could hook it up to it's Javascript engine, and create a stupid call: Chrome.Element("").WeirdTransparency()
UPDATE to Questioner's Update:
to your point:
The reason why would I like it is that
I want to build a cross-platform
(Linux, Windows, Mac), zero-install,
fancy-looking rich client application
(not meant to be served as an Internet
website)
AIR kinda covers 90% or your requirements. It still needs a small install, but apart from that, you're running...
This is possible in Electron. By setting a transparent background on the body.
I'm sure browser developers would need a lot of "inspiration" - aka $$$ to do this. It's currently not a feature that a whole lot of people are looking for.
Since standard compliance is very high on the priority list for all browser developers, making this out of the box would be a problem. Namely because there is no CSS/HTML support for it, and the standard is to have a white background. This means that they would need a custom "flag" somewhere in the markup to tell it to switch off the white background.
This would be exclusive to the browser that implements the "feature" and anyone else using any other browser would not be privy to the it.
Somehow you can get the background image of the desktop, set it your html background, and code any app in it. when you do this concept with active desktop in desktop configuration, I get to see this. ( I maximize the web page and lock it - to make it feel like my desktop )
For getting the background, I am putting the location of that in my PC right now. But I think there should be some programmatic way to do it.
This works for our local desktops. But the idea you are talking about, you definitely require Prism like thing. But Firefox looks like it stopped that project for all. (I keep the dump of it in my PC, though). So Recent users would not have prism even if you guide them to install it on their PCs.
And then, This works if the image is full sized to fit the desktop. Otherwise, We have to repeat it, and the whole desktop looks absurd. I often try to write AIR ( Adobe RIA platform for the Desktops.) apps for my taste of eyes.
I think you should try learning Adobe AIR. In fact, it supports all open technologies. I am not any Adobe employee though :) in case you think I am promoting AIR.