How does websites like Facebook or Stackoverflow remember the position I was at when I navigate away from their site to another site and hit the "Back" button on my browser?
It's not the website, it is the browser. If you have used ID's in your code, the browser will remember approximately which one you were at when you clicked a link.
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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.
On Facebook, via mobile, If you go to a profile page and click on a link to a person website it loads the website up in front of the Facebook website so when they press the X in the top left-hand corner it then deletes the webpage and the Facebook is still there.
On my desktop computer, I have used a different tap to load up but can't find out how I can do it this way for mobile and tablet?
I'm sure its quite simple but I have not got a clue what to look for sadly
Hope you can help, please.
Many Thanks
Tim
The picture you give appears to be the native mobile app for Facebook and not a webpage.
It just uses an embedded browser in the mobile app. How you do that depends on which platform you are developing for. For iOS it would be something along the lines of the UIWebView class.
I've got some embedded iframe Bandcamp players on www.mangledmusic.net/releases. I set up our Bandcamp page to look like our website, which will have an image map of my sites page tabs. The link in the embedded players that takes you to bandcamp opens in a new tab every time. I have tried numerous solutions listed on this site, and none of them have worked. Is this possible? Obviously Bandcamp.com and my site are not the same domain. Thanks!
Are you able to edit the Bandcamp site? Every link in the Bandcamp iFrame has the target set to _blank. This tells the browser to open in a new window.
If you want the site to open in the same tab, you should use target="_top" in your links.
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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.
I have a page with a few hundred images. If the user clicks a link while the images are loading, the page isn't refreshed until ALL the images are loaded. A savvy user presses ESC and then clicks the link, but I can't expect my users to do that.
Is there a way to get all other actions to take precedence over the image loading? Do I have to go to some javascript lazy-loading and then ruin the site for non-js users?
Example Page http://metaward.com/6
What browser are you using and what operating system? On my machine, Vista with firefox 3 clicking a link before all images load works just fine.