How is it possible to modify this bookmarklet which activates the webclip app-mode so that iOS will display it in 4 inch fullscreen?: http://cl.ly/text/1H1b3E3K3T0V
I've already read about the changes you need to make in html when optimizing a page but I didn't get it right with this script.
I suspect that adding the meta tag "apple-mobile-web-app-capable" after the page had loaded is not going to work. Safari is likely not expecting this to change after the fact and therefor is not watching for a change. In other words, I would predict that you can't use a bookmarklet to do what you are trying to do in such a direct manner.
I suspect that adding the "apple-touch-startup-image" will work because Safari is not checking for this information until the user chooses to create a home screen shortcut.
As a possible work around to the problem, you might consider is somehow trying to recreate the page using the modified HTML. The bookmarklet might modify the DOM like above, then create a new blank tab with window.open() and set its contents equal to the current document.documentElement.outerHTML. This is just a suggestion off top of my head and I have not tested it.
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I am trying to create some simple tutorials, which involve people using the console in chrome. Ideally I would like to build them in a codecademy style - so instead of saying 'browse to this element in the console' and the user having to go to a separate demo page and do this, it would be built into one page.
So, I would have the tutorial, and then an iframe containing the demo page. I need the console to be open in the iframe page (and stay contained within it), but still be usable.
I know in chrome you can change which iframe you are viewing in the dev tools, and if needs be I will simply instruct users to do that, but I feel it would be more effective / smoother if the console was actually within the iframe and was automatically there.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
I'm working on my first jQuery Mobile site, which is a (prototype for) a Location Based Game in Brisbane, Australia: www.jsjensen.dk/soleil/
My question is based on viewing from a mobile device, but a desktop device have very similar problems. I have tested with Chrome and Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Same problem everywhere.
I think it's related to how jQuery Mobile loads and displays pages, but I'm not using multiple pages in one HTML document, but have multiple HTML document.
If you go to the website above and then click "QUESTS" in the menu, followed by "Stairway to Knowledge" you will end on /soleil/quest01.html (desktop) and /soleil/#/soleil/quest01.html. That "#/soleil" really confuses me!
In this first try the JavaScript for handling answers in the text input is not loaded. That means nothing happens when you press "Unlock".
Now, if you reload on desktop or edit the address on iOS to /soleil/quest01.html (which is the actual and real file) it will reload the page with the right JavaScript loaded and initialized.
Now I'm able to go back (pressing "QUESTS" in the menu) and then go to another page (e.g. "Citadel of Fun") with the same problem: the JavaScript not loading. If I go back to the other one ("Stairway to Knowledge") the JavaScript is, however, still loaded and working just fine.
So what happens here? I'm pretty sure my linking/coding is correct, but it's just a basic understanding of jQuery Mobile that I'm missing. Can I change something to make this work? It could really be awesome!
So, I found a way to fix it, but not really a solution to the original problem.
I've added rel="external" to the tags pointing to the pages where I had problems. In this way it will not use the AJAX system to load these pages, but do it in a regular way. This solved my problem, but now I can't make any fancy transitions.
I am stuck with a little problem from few days now.
There is some solution over internet but they don’t match what I need.
I’m on a Spring web application, using flex. For some reasons I need to load a new windows (or tab) in background.
For now I manage to write some JavaScript script that put the focus on the main window when the child one is created but when the main window get the focus back it select the whole text and so the user loose all his work.
It’s why the new window MUST NOT take the focus at any time.
I also tried to create a link and simulate the middle click on it so the tab is created in background, but it only work on Chrome, beside I see that on Internet Explorer the tab is sometime created in background sometime in foreground (even if the setting option: “Always switch to new tabs when they are created” is NOT setted on, i must miss something).
Of course like in a lot of company the main browser is IE, so the solution must work for it, i can specify some setting to make the thing work as every user get the same env.
i've also tried to set the registry to make no application take focus but on 7 or 2008 RT it's not really usefull.
I’m looking for a solution in javascript, flex/AS or even html to create that tab without interrupting the user. If the main window loose the focus 1 sec but I manage to not select the whole text in flex it will be good too.
Thanks in advance.
How can I stop google.com from pulling my cursor away from the URL and focusing it on the search box with Greasemonkey?
I use google as my home page and hit the home button to open a new tab, maybe not the best way to do it, but it is habit. I will start typing in a URL and when the page is done loading the Google search field pulls my cursor away when I'm half done typing.
I know a decent amount of javascript but I don't even know where to start when viewing Googles page source. If someone could write a script for this I would love you forever, and I'm sure many others would too!
EDIT:
Possibly the better question is how to do this with Adblock Plus?
EDIT#2:
Is it possible to run javascript before a specific page loads with a firefox plugin? Or, is it possible to block javascript on a page before it loads?
I am not looking for any "work arounds" I am looking for a fix. A fix to remove or disable "document.f.q.focus()".
Edit#3: What about a bookmarklet? Could it be possible with that?
See http://noscript.net/
It's a firefox plugin that disables javascript on sites. You could configure it to just run on google.com, I think (if you do not want it to interfere with other sites).
Noscript is more secure, but it can be a pain because it uses a whitelist approach.
Or you can use YesScript, which operates a blacklist instead.
Re: "I just want to blacklist a specific line of code on 1 site"...
There is no addon to do that. You can block all scripts from a site using NoScript or YesScript. Or you can block a specific JS file using Adblock.
You cannot selectively block bits of JS that are embedded in the main page, except in rare occasions GM can sometimes work around it.
This sounds like trying to use an anvil to smash an ant. Or some other, better, complex-tool-for-simple-job analogy. I would suggest either setting your home page to a blank page, or opening new tabs with a new tab button or Ctrl+T.
I do not believe it is possible, just looking around a bit. The focus actually comes from the onload attribute of the body element:
onload="document.f.q.focus();if(document.images)new Image().src='/images/srpr/nav_logo27.png'"
As you can see, document.f.q.focus() is your issue. However, I can't get a GM script to run before that onload is executed. I'm not too experienced with that particular issue, though: any GM scripts I've written are novelties whose load order doesn't matter a great deal, so long as it's done after the page is loaded.
If you know how to make GM scripts run before an onload (on a very light webpage), then it's as simple as saying unsafeWindow.document.body.onload = null.
You cannot do this with Greasemonkey, because GM cannot manipulate chrome elements enough to set focus to the address bar.
You cannot do this with Adblock for the same reason, and because Adblock just stops external elements from loading.
None of the FF scripting add-ons could do this either, as far as I can tell.
You could write an extension/add-on to reset focus, but the real problem here is that the user is ignoring the tools in place for the job.
As Scott Cranfill said, use Ctrl T to open a new tab.
If a button is absolutely desired, Firefox already provides one. Do this:
In the Firefox menu, select View --> Toolbars --> Customize... .
Find the "New Tab" icon and drag it to your toolbar.
Click that icon, from now on, when you want a new blank tab.
Done!
I am looking for a way to improve the workflow in a PHP based CMS. There is a lot of switching between the editor mode and the preview mode of the page. The editor mode is huge to load, and so I would like to open the preview mode in a different window.
I don't want to use new windows or an iframe within the current window to keep the workflow simple and to avoid confusion.
Is there a way to explicitly open a new tab (not window), and to jump to that tab from a document, in Firefox? The number of users is limited, so there is the possibility to set up the client with the necessary extensions / permissions.
I know Firefox can be forced to open all links in tabs, but I think that won't cut it, as I still can't address and focus the newly opened window.
Thanks for all the great answers everyone. I have now enough material to decide whether I'll take the greasemonkey approach, rely on the user to set up "open in tabs" and address the window by name, or use a "inline" HTML solution as so many of you suggested. I am accepting the answer that I feel went most effort into.
There is no way to force a window to open as a tab. It's all dependent on the user's preference settings.
I second the answers that say you should do this in HTML using Javascript. Then it can work in all browsers that support JS.
I would put two divs on the page and show/hide each div depending on which tab is selected. If you are clever about this you could trap the click on the tab and determine if the user left-clicked or middle-clicked. If they left click you load that tab on the page. If they middle-click you let the browser open a new tab/window (according to the user's prefs, don't try to force it), and leave the current window unchanged (that is, don't switch to the new tab). The action for clicking on the tab would be to use AJAX to load the contents of the remote document and put it into the tab. Use Javascript to modify the URL before submitting the AJAX request so that the server knows to send a web page fragment instead of the whole page.
The advantage of this dual-natured solution is that the tabbed approach will work the way you want it to work for the majority of cases, but for users with, say, two screens, or who prefer switching between browser tabs, they will still have the flexibility to work in multi-window mode. This can all be done without any browser extensions and it should work equally well in IE as well as Firefox, Opera, etc. Avoid locking yourself into one browser, even one as excellent as Firefox. One day a customer will need to use Opera or Safari and you'll be stuck.
You say you don't want to use an iframe to avoid confusion. Now I don't know about the layout of your website, but I've been using the approach that the editor opens in its own div right next to the content being edited and the content is being live updated as you edit. No need to change tabs.
(If the window is too narrow there are HTML tabs Edit and Preview)
It does not seem to add confusion to the user and for me this approach works really well. Maybe it's worth considering in your case.
What about using iframes and JavaScript?
I know you said you want to avoid 'confusion using iframes', but in my opinion if you really need to load different pages at the same time this is the best option.
In theory, you could create your own tab system using javascript or even better, using jQuery, because its UI module offers pretty cool tab control.
For every tab you could load separate "headerless-footerless" version of your specific admin page inside <iframe> element. If user wanted to modify something different, he will simply click on the tab and bring different iframe.
All this could also be done using AJAX, but iframe solution is quite easy as you just need to load ready page and all postbacks are already handled by original page and separated from master-admin-page.
You might also need to play a little bit to set correct height of your iframe to fit all the content without scrollbars, but this again, is just bit of javascript.
Nope, there's no way to force the opening of a new tab, simply because this would be unsupported by un-tabbed browsing
You can only set it to open a new window, not a new tab.
Greasemonkey springs to mind - a quick google gives open in tabs on left click. I think you could modify that so it only runs on one particular page, and you'd be up up and away.
This question made me wonder if HTML 5 allows that sort of specification, and it doesn't (nothing in one of the other hyperlink attributes, either). A new browsing context is a new browsing context, there's no way to express a preference for tab over window or foreground over background.
You can't force a tab, but if you use a target with a specific name, like target="my_cms_window", many browsers will open this as a new tab. Additionally, they will remember the name and if you use the target repeatedly, put the contents in the same tab. I have found that this works pretty well in the real world.