Building an offline web app in VS2010. I have a master page with a navigation menu control. So far I've been able to add 4 new pages, each navigated to from this menu control. All has been added to the Cache Manifest file and all has worked offline up until now. After the most recent page was added to the project, now when I am offline, my menu control doesn't load properly and the console shows that the webresource.axd for the menu control couldn't be found and then gives the sys is not defined error. The error does not occur just by navigating to a page, only when button is clicked that causes a location.reload(true).
I've seen from VS where things will be working and then when you restart VS the next morning stuff will suddenly be broken. But I mean this is really blowing my mind.
Is there another way maybe to refresh an offline page such that the controls reset back to original value? That is the only reason I am doing the refresh.
It was something so simple I am embarrassed. I changed location.reload(true) to location.reload(false). That way, it wasn't trying to reload the page from the server. All fixed.
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My web application is mimicing the UI of my desktop application, flow is as follows
Select Task in browser window
Change any Options and then start
Show Progress in same browser window, the progress bar goess back to server every 5 seconds checking progress.
When task has completed we show report in new tab
and go back to Select task Window,
this is done by running following Javascript in progress page
window.open('/start','_self'); window.open('/reporturl','_blank');
This works fine on my PC but when trying on Safari on OSX and on Android phone and iPad one of two things happen
The progress page becomes the start page but the report page is not opened in tab
The Progress page becomes the report page
My question is does opening window in new tab with _blank have all the problems of using popup windows. If so should I modify my prcoess so that at stage 3 it just displays report page, and then add a back button or navigable footer to the report to allow user to get back to start page ?
I can think of some options you could use instead of new tab.
Modal with Ajax
-- With jQuery it is posible to open modal
dialogs they can be populated with html (or other data) fetched with ajax (async). I am a big fan of these and use them all over my projects. Users will not be annoyed with pop-up warning messages, etc. Once the content is read (or whatever) the user can simply close the dialog. (If I had to make your app I would certainly implement this).
Besides the jQuery dialogs, other modal/dialog scripts are out there. Check out Bootstrap Modal if you like it modern.
Serve report as download
-- Depending on what the user can/will do with the report, it might be interesting to write the report page in a way that it sends back a .pdf file, or another type of file, as download. Loading the URL in a new tab will now always start a download. Triggering this from JS without user interaction might be a problem though (same as with pop-up / new tab). Adding a button to trigger the download on complete will solve this.
I know the question was about the use of tabs.. But try to avoid it. Browsers handle it all in their own way. And many users get confused when suddenly stuff is opening in tabs when they did not ask for it. In case of pop-ups, it is possible for users to turn them of or convert into opening a new tab from within the browser settings. If they have been fiddling with browser defaults, you'll have troubles of keeping the 'flow' of the app the same for all users (and cross browser).
I have a link in my app that points to an app protocol of type myProtocol://". Until a few days ago this was working completely fine, whenever you clicked on the link, the native app would open.
However, iOS9.2 seems to have broken this. Now what happens is when the links is clicked, I get a prompt to open the native app which disappears after roughly 1 second, not even close to giving the user enough time to access. Shortly afterwards I get prompted to go to the App Store to the app's page.
Any idea why this is happening and what changes in iOS9.2 that is causing this would be helpful.
It seems that with iOS9.2, Apple is making a move towards Universal Links and traditional deeplinking is not supported anymore. While I was not able to find any information published direct on iOS9.2 release notes, following links indicate the same:
https://blog.branch.io/ios-9.2-redirection-update-uri-scheme-and-universal-links
https://www.adjust.com/overview/features/2015/12/11/ios-9-2-deeplinking/
I am facing a weird problem in windows phone 8.1 page navigation.
I have got two pages.
Login page > Consists of app bar in which one of the button take us to second page.
Second page is Cached using MVVM i.e Registered the Second page to IOC on launch of app and binding the instance of it to page 2 XAML.
In the Second page View model Constructor I am making Server call to get the data.
Problems facing.
On Clicking the app bar button to navigate to second page, the app stays in the first page until the second page make server call and get the response. Then its navigating.
But actual behavior must be it should navigate to second page and wait there to get response showing progress bar.
One quick fix is I made the thread to stop for some 50 millisecond in page 2 constructor of view model and then made service call
It navigated to Second page immediately and waited there until response but the previous page App Bar still displays until I get the response.
I even find the quick solution for it by Collapsing the App bar just before Navigating to that page.
I know these quick fixes are not good. So please help me to find out the problem or if you already know please revert back with the solution.
Don't use constructor to initiate the web service calls . Use OnNavigatedTo or Page_Loaded event .
Got an odd problem, only persistent in Chrome browser. Can't imagine what would be the problem. Chrome's "Back" button doesn't work, nor does history.go(-1), but works fine on all other browsers. To see the problem simply click this link, which will asynchronously initiate searches on two separate services, or sites if you will. Upon click on any search result list item, we traverse to another page, but "Back" doesn't work for Chrome.
http://vps-net.com/MSSMine/?search=some
Any suggestions or ideas are welcome.
I found the problem with the page you have linked, I don't believe it to be an issue with Chrome.
When you load the page, it also loads two iFrames as the request to the site finishes. Chrome takes a somewhat different approach to history, allowing you to navigate not simply from changes in the URL displayed, but through every new individual browser-initiated request. When the iFrames load, Chrome adds history for each step of the page loading process, creating 4 separate history items. When you go back 1 "page load", it takes you back to the site you linked to, at a different step in the process. You aren't seeing anything change because as soon as that page loads, any unloaded iFrame now loads again.
If you do history.go(-8) or some other large number, you should see the page at that many pageloads ago. However, if the link is opened "in a new tab" then the history begins for that tab at the URL you told it to open, effectively limiting the history to the pages that occurred during that tab's lifespan.
This was tested on Chrome 34.0.1847.116 running under Ubuntu 13.10.
My back button was not working as well, but it would not work with any browser. I went into my add/delete software and deleted what software was added the night before - BOOM! All is fine now.
A client wishes to have a link that opens a new window and shows the website of an investment company.
Pretty straight forward so far.
So I create this link
Click Me
The client then tells me that the page is acting all weird. So I test it and he's right, it's acting very strange.
Here's what my tests shows.
Firefox mac: Page opens, then closes itself and returns to the window with the client's website where it then changes the URL to the one that is suppose to open.
Safari mac and Chrome mac: Page opens, then closes itself and returns to the window with the client's website
Client's IE: opening and closing multiple windows (his words, didn't test it myself);
Instead of redirecting to the page itself, I changed the link to go to the homepage. User will now have to click on "Login" to access the page we wanted originally. Guess what? It does the same thing.
Here's a simplified fiddle. You'll see it's pretty straight forward.
Now I know that the problem isn't from my side but on the investment site. They seem to dynamically add some parameters to the URL for security reasons I suppose.
My question is: how can I avoid all this non sense and simply open the page without it closing? Can someone explain to my why it's doing so?
I tried the login link myself (in Chrome) and it does the same thing.. closes itself.. You should contact their web-designers and report the problem. I succeeded to click on Stop loading button and look through page. Everything is "ok" except that thing it closes. Contact them and wait for response/fix.