Is there a way to use javascript to activate the preferences dialog, so that a user can change a proxy address if they need to & also be able to click on an anchor link and have the Page Setup Dialog open, so that they can choose the page orientation for printing.
The reason for this, is becuase I am trying to use mozilla Prism to deploy a web application, but I have hidden the Navigation Bar & Status Bar(which contains the Prism's button for setting these preferences). I want Prism to be just a frame.
I have not posted in Prism discussion forums, becuase maybe there is standard javascript way of opening up these dialogs, can you(anyone) share how if it is possible. A firefox workaround will be enough, since prism is based on Firefox. Thanks.
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I am developing a cross-browser MVC web app with a javascript browser extension that uses a background script, is it possible to hide the address bar/navigation, the browser window menus, side bar and other toolbars?
The only thing I really want to keep is the tabs, though I would like to hide the add tab button as well.
This web app will run by itself a browser window, I have already got the extension doing that, so it won't affect other website functionality.
Question: Is this possible, if so, how and what api's should I focus on?
There are two ways to hide a browser's UI:
1) In any environment, you can popup a 'chomeless window' popup, which is discussed here: How do I create a chromeless window?
2) In a mobile environment, primarily Android, you can develop a Progressive Web App which will be able to open the mobile browser without the UI. See: Create a PWA in under 5 min's
Given your use case, it sounds like option 1 is your best bet, but likely it won't satisfy all your requirements.
I have a website which contains links to external websites, for example amazon product links. The links work just fine, but when I test my website on mobile (iOS in this case), I noticed that clicking the links in the mobile browsers would force open the Amazon app rather than just opening a new tab.
The links in my html are as follows:
I want to have these links open in the browser only, not in their respective apps. Is there any way in to prevent this behavior using html / javascript? Thanks!
No, you can't.
The reason is: you should not be able to impose your choice on the user. Maybe the user prefers the app? That's why iOS 9 introduced the app switcher on the top left hand corner if you switch apps.
Also, let's look from the other side of things if you are the app developer: If you go so far as to build an app and allow universal links (or generally deep links), you obviously would like the user to use that feature and rather open the site in the app. But again, you cannot force the user into opening that link in the app. That's a good thing, because it all depends on what the user wants to do and how he wants to do it.
Having the user choose is the best way to handle this from a UX point of view.
I am building a chrome app for a client that will run in kiosk mode to display in their stores. Right now I have an index.html page that links to about 30 other pages. However, when I click on a link in the app I get an error...
Can't open same-window link to "chrome-extension://leghflngpfmomcflabikghiemaajadne/poweredge"; try target="_blank".
So I tried target="_blank" and that tries to open it in a new chrome window.. no good. I've been reading a little bit about using webview and sandboxing pages but they both open the pages in a new window and it just doesn't look good.
Is there a better way to do this? Right now my only idea is to place all of the content on the index.html page and turn on/off sections of the content with jQuery. I'd love to keep all of the pages separate though, just for my own sanity.
Thanks!
Navigation is disabled for the Chrome Apps platform. In theory you are supposed to make single-page apps - so your turn on/off approach is the "intended" one.
No-one stops you from having several windows though - suppose you have an options page, it wouldn't be strange to open it separately (via chrome.app.window.create)
As stdob mentions in comments, a workaround may be possible by using <webview> with a partition blessed to show local resources. It's not clear though if it will allow access to apps APIs.
Okay, so this is a bit of an odd question. Facebook is trying to remove the feature that hides your profile from search, but requires you hit an accept button before they can remove it. I like my privacy, so instead I just used ABP to hide the dialog box and give me back access to the page. The problem is that scrolling has been disabled, so while I can interact with the content that's currently visible, I can't scroll down. Is there a way to inject HTML or JS that would force-enable scrolling?
Seems as a job for greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
There are similar plugins for other browsers, Chrome have support for users scripts by default but there is a great addon there as well
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo
Internet Explorer can also offer this by adding Trixie
http://trixie.softpedia.com/
If you don't need it all the time and don't want to go to the effort of making a script you could just edit the html directly using either the developer tools built in to most browsers and inspecting the element.
Just right click what you want to change and select inspect element.
Adam
Is there a way to programmatically create a desktop link for my webpage?
Not from Javascript, but there is a trick to let the users do it. It is more of an interaction design technique rather than programming technique but I'll write it maybe someone googles this question and finds it useful.
Make an icon on your page with a text under it. Then ask the user to drag this icon to their desktop. The icon should be embedded in an anchor tag <a> with the href attribute pointing to your website. The text under the icon should be the same as the <title> tag of your page. The browsers make an icon when the user drags an anchor link from a page to a folder, desktop or bookmark bar. The text that the browsers assign this shortcut or link is usually the <title> of the page. Remember that the icon should be set as the background of the element so that the browser doesn't save the image instead of making a new link. It would be even better if this icon is the same as the favicon of your website.
To demonstrate this technique here is some code:
<p>You can make a shortcut to www.mysite.com by dragging this icon to your desktop or bookmark bar: </p>
<a href="https://www.example.com">
<div id="icon" style="background-image:url('favicon.png');width:32px;height:32px;"></div>
<div id="title">www.example.com</div>
</a>
Like a native app:
In Chrome users can go to Menu > More tools > Create application shortcut... and create a borderless shortcut to your site that looks like an app. Something similar can be done in Android, iOS and also Firefox on Android.
This is not possible with browser scripts such as JavaScript. It is a security feature. I'm sure you can appreciate why people would not want webpages to be able to access your local file system.
Imagine that instead of drowning in popup windows, we would be drowning in files created by spammy/scammy webpages. I'm not saying that your site is spammy or scammy, just trying to put this into perspective :)
You could quite easily create a sort of tutorial for your users on how to create a shortcut or add your page to their bookmarks taking into consideration that users may be using different browsers, but if you cover the major browsers, Chrome, Firefox and IE, I'm sure your users will have no problem following your instructions.
From JavaScript, running on a webpage?
No.