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I am using http://kangoextensions.com/ to create an extension for multiple browsers.
This extension needs to add a sidebar to each webpage in each tab, that allows the user to interact with my server from the web page.
What I currently have is a content script that adds an iframe to the webpage. The iframe is initially hidden, but when the user presses a button I also added, the iframe is shown.
The iframe source is my own website.
This works great for the most part, but I have an issue - when the user is constantly navigating between pages, my iframe constantly disappears and re-appears with each navigation, which is not a great user experience.
I also tried using a browser extension popup window, but this window disappears when it loses focus, so it does not fit my use case.
I am looking for a way to have a "proper" sidebar - a window that is loaded once and lives for the entire duration of the browser tab.
If anyone knows of a way to achieve this, I would really appreciate it. Ideally - a solution that works on all browsers, but if you know of a way that will work only on some browsers, that's good too.
Thanks
Amir
Kango does not support sidebars at the moment.
The best you can manage is a popup.
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I'm making a tutorial which involves recording my computer screen. I need to click a link that normally directs me to, say https://website.com/page. I want it to redirect me to https://website.com/another_page, which can be easily edited using Inspect Element.
However, when I click the link showing now another_page, I want the URL in browser (Firefox, Chrome) to still be https://website.com/page. Is that possible?
You could do fullscreen in which case the url wouldn't even show. I don't know if that would work with your screen recorder, but it's worth a try. You could also the edit the url directly at the top of your screen so that it shows https://website.com/page and move your keyboard focus away from it so that it appears that the url is https://website.com/page.
So I created an HTML GUI for a touchscreen monitor. The browser is supposed to always stay in fullscreen. Now I want to embed another website inside my HTML, which works pretty well.
My only problem now is, that when I click through the embedded webpage, new pages open without my GUI. This is a problem because I added navigation functionality to the GUI and since it always runs in fullscreen I can't use the back and forward buttons either.
So is there a way to make Firefox always open my HTML GUI, when it opens a new page and open the requested page as embedded in my GUI?
You should provide more information about how did you embed other site in your html gui.
The solution is to use <iframe> element, then all the links inside the iframe should be open in that iframe. And if you want any other link from your GUI to be open in that iframe, just add target="name_of_the_iframe" to that element, and a attribute name="name_of_the_iframe" to the iframe (ofcourse "name_of_the_iframe" is an example).
You can try using an iframe
From w3schools: "An iframe is used to display a web page within a web page."
Take a look at this link: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_iframe.asp
So this is a weird problem, I am attempting to embed a video stream from a D-Link DCS-930L into a web page. My embed looks like this:
<img alt="" src="http://guest:password#192.0.0.10/video.cgi">
The problem is that Chrome displays a broken link image when I load the page, while Firefox and IE load it perfectly the first time.
But the really strange part is that if I right click on the broken image > Open link in new tab the stream loads, and then if I close the tab and refresh the page with the embed it loads there too! So it's definitely something to do with the username/password requirement.
I have also tried creating a user without a password but I see the same issue. There is no setting to disable this requirement in the 930L's control panel that I can find.
Does anyone know how to fix this? If not, is there a way to use PHP to execute a login automatically for the above kind of URLs?
This appears to be intentional behavior on Chrome's part since v19. Bummer.
In my end the webpage looks good but in my client's end the page doesn't load properly or just the vertical lines show up without the text and images.
Link to the website : http://www.krishnaprasad.me/Iadmire.html (Inactive now).
The website looks fine in all browsers for my client except Google Chrome that too in normal mode.
I've used Foundation 5 framework for developing this site. If it's an issue with browser's extensions/plugins at my client's side, can I automatically disable that?
Let's start with the easy part: You cannot disable a plugin or extension from within JavaScript (if that's what you meant by automatically disabling). The only way that I know of to disabling those is for the user to actually open the Extensions page in their Browser Settings and manually disable those.
You can, however, detect the presence of problematic plugins or extensions in JavaScript and, for example, redirect the user to another page where you ask them to disable those plugins.
I've taken a look at the page and I found the culprit: One of elements had an id of adcontent, which I am guessing is black-listed by either Chrome or one of the plugins.
I believe that if you could change that id to something else, and adjust the CSS appropriately, the issue should be fixed.
I would like to use apple-mobile-web-app-capable to allow a user to browse a website like a kiosk, without the navigation bar and the page fullscreen.
This works well until a link is clicked, then it opens Safari.
Is there any way to use this fullscreen mode and allow clicking of links without being taken to Safari?
I asked a similar question over on AskDifferent - Hiding URL Bar on iPad.
The answer I received there suggested distributing the web app's configuration file, which allows you to configure many more options. The end-user must agree to the profile installation, but having a controlled device will limit any frustration with this fact. The details of this were linked to in the above answer, but it appears to be broken now.
Alternatively, Chrome has a full screen browser mode that can be taken advantage of. Given a controlled device you could simply use the alternative browser.