My browser name sniffer, updated for Google Chrome.

The highlighted section accommodates for the structure of Google Chrome's userAgent string, otherwise Chrome would be detected as Safari:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13

var browserName = navigator.appName ( Read more... )

I've had to make the following changes in Dojo Release 1.1.1 in order to get Dojo to work in both IE and Firefox:

/dojox/data/dom.js:

Line 37:

/* CCP: Bugfix: mimetype of "text/xml; charset=UTF-8" set by the server causes DOMParser.parseFromString to fail with the following error ( Read more... )

NOTE: This code has been updated.

I recently came across a need to sniff a user's browser name with JavaScript. I could just use navigator.appName, but many browsers report Netscape even when that's not really the case (e.g.: Firefox). I've seem some rather inelegant browser name scripts out there. So, I decided to write my own:

var browserName ( Read more... )

I've been futzing around with a custom login script for a personal project of mine, and I've just completed a working demo. It uses cookies and sessions to keep track of login sessions and it's completely object-oriented (except for the implementation code ( Read more... )

I've got a question about content negotiation... Basically, I'd like to know if there's a way to make type-maps and the MultiViews option work side-by-side. I'd like to utilize both within the same directory. Right now, the only way I can access a resource via type-map is by specifying the .var extension in the URL, even though ".var" isn't part of ( Read more... )

I just submitted a project application to SourceForge for BitCondenserI'm including the project description below. I'm doing this now because I'm going to be releasing BitCondenser with the GNU GPL for a license, so it's not like I consider this "intellectual property" or anything like that. The idea of "IP" to me is a bogus one ( Read more... )

I'm starting work on a new file compression/delivery method, and I'm trying to come up with a name that will fit its description. I've been shooting for a name that will mimic "BitTorrent", because what I'm working on will have the potential of either replacing BitTorrent or complementing it very nicely (although there really won't be any need for ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done anything with C++, so please excuse me if this question seems a little "slow".

Is there an intrinsic way to store values larger than 4,294,967,295? That is, is there a data type that will hold integers (not floating-point numbers) larger than an unsigned long intI remember back in high school days I had to write a ( Read more... )

Cheack it out!Create an Amazon AIM Bot

AOL Instant Messenger isn't the most likely place you'll need Amazon book data, but that doesn't mean the applications aren't fun to connect. With Perl and the Net::AIM module, you can have your own chattering book-bot requesting Amazon information for you.

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I'm going to create a new XML application. You've seen WSDL, WML, XHTML, RDF, Atom, and more... However, you'll soon be adding another acronym to that list: FOOL!

FOOL (Foolfile Originating and Organizing Language) (official name subject to change) shall enable people with foolfiles to easily and efficiently share them via Web-enabled mediums, ( Read more... )