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What is the use case of BroadcastChannel API?
I'm reading about BroadcastChannel API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastChannel . It seems that it is already on market for a long time, and quite cool as well. However, what ...
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What are downsides to opening local html files in the browser?
Let's say you have a scenario where you want to build a simple web stack (html/css/js) prototype to share with someone.
I am a little unclear on whether or not I want/need to use a small web-server to ...
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Allowing a user on one page to be able to cause an event on another
I would like to allow a set of users to be able to submit a form on one page, and then it would cause an event to trigger on another page.
For example:
Submit Page:
Includes the form, the user ...
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Why bother with server-side form submissions in a SPA?
I am all in favour of progressive enhancement and using server-side rendering when fetching a URL. The age-old discussion gives several advantages, such as improved load time, SEO crawling and ...
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Angular template variable reference [closed]
Here is a weird problem in Angular:
<input #pin1 type="password">
<p>You entered: {{pin1.value}}</p>
If you type something in <input>, the <p>'s content will not change ...
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Rewrite legacy code or continue to live with it [duplicate]
Last year I decided to create a web-based SAP Business One extension system consisting of a JavaScript SPA written with Aurelia that communicates with two REST backends written in Go and Java (...
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Multiple language web application - how to implement?
What is the best way to provide a web application in multiple languages?
The focus of my question is not what to think about, but indeed how to do it.
The text in the web application:
text in the ...
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Animations and React -- is it bad practice to mix them?
I have been in arguments with programmers that mixing elements with animations and react is very bad practice, and that all animations should be in a style sheet because that is something ...
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Cross-language Test-Driven Development
The short question: How do you follow Test-Driven Development on a project that spans multiple languages?
Specifically, I'm writing a web application that uses JavaScript and PHP, and I want to ...
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Pre-Processors vs Pure Web [closed]
It seems like within the last few years or so HTML/CSS/JavaScript Preprocessors have exploded in quantity and general use. They're still not as common as pure HTML, CSS, and JS/jQuery, but their ...
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How-To: a browser based, real time, shared memory inspection/debugger application [closed]
Background:
I have a C application running under Linux utilizing shared memory. I also have a debugger written in Python that can link to said shared memory and access individual variable values of ...
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Binding in web frameworks - to frontend data or backend data?
AngularJS and other web frameworks provide data binding abilities (as in WPF). Is the UI bound to JavaScript variables on the frontend (web browser) or is it bound to the data in the server (via AJAX ...
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Why is an A element often used instead of a BUTTON for web design? [closed]
Is there any particular reason why people use the A tag to mimic a BUTTON in HTML and JavaScript?
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Do I need to learn Javascript to make decent websites? [closed]
Hello I have been using C++ and Java for years. For better or for worse, I have always looked at JavaScript as not as powerful as these languages and therefore probably not worth my time and effort to ...
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What are Web runtime environments and programming languages
I've been looking into the details behind these two different categories:
Web runtime environments
Web application programming languages
I believe I have the correct information and have phrased it ...
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How is the DOM language independent?
Quoting from Wikipedia
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents.
and ...
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Should I still make my site work in non-javascript capable browsers?
Apparently less than 1% had javascript off in 2010:
http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-users-have-javascript-disabled/
So is it worth it to still support browsing without ...
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JavaScript Multi Threading
Well these days JavaScript is main player in all web development technologies , on client side for making user interface better, client side logic, on some web servers as server side logic also
Add ...
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html/css/js best practices [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should a developer know before building a public web site?
Are there any books or resources on html/css/js and web design best practices?
There are plenty books which ...
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Are there any limitations of an idealistic HTML5 web application
Let's assume the following two assumptions are true.
Your entire userbase has broadband access everywhere
There is an imaginary browser X that implements the entire draft specification of the HTML5 ...
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