One of the "features" of WEBDEV v27 was a revamp of zone editing (Feature 793). Below is details from the New Features document. It sounds so great and simple, but I believe it is at the core of some of the biggest issues a few of our clients have had with their WEBDEV v27 upgrades. … Continue reading v27 WebDev Zone/Style Issues and Uncle Pete’s Tips
Category: WEBDEV
WEBDEV Style Issue
I ran into an issue with a WEBDEV Style today and I wonder if it, or something similar doesn't have something to do with some of the reports issues some users have had in v25 and v26 with style issues on certain controls after upgrading. Along with showing you the actual change I made to … Continue reading WEBDEV Style Issue
Disabling Grammarly for an edit control
Are your multiline edit controls jumping around when you click your cursor in them? Do you have the Grammarly extension installed? Well then read on This is an issue that has been plaguing some of us for a while, but it has come up quite a bit lately as I believe grammerly is getting more … Continue reading Disabling Grammarly for an edit control
Fixing the outdated JQuery Library
We recently had a WEBDEV project that is being used in an extremely security conscious industry. And they flagged our app because it was using JQuery 3.1.1, which has a few know vulnerabilities. It should be noted these vulnerabilities are low to medium risk and mitigated other ways via server configuration etc., but the client … Continue reading Fixing the outdated JQuery Library
More fun with the JQuery UI Date Picker
I have written about the JQuery UI date picker before, be sure to check out that article if you haven't seen it. Today we got a request from a client that need the ability to allow the user to clear the date. So I had to put on my thinking (googling) cap and come up … Continue reading More fun with the JQuery UI Date Picker
AWS 2019 Server WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Errors
We have been battling an issue for several months, it seems to only effect Amazon AWS servers running Windows Server 2019. We have had 5 servers exhibit this behavior. So what exactly is the issue? Suddenly the server will no longer be able to establish outgoing connections. Websites, etc. all still function fine, unless you … Continue reading AWS 2019 Server WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Errors
Apache Strips off Basic Authorization Header
I shared this in Dallas, with my Webservices presentation, but hadn't gotten around to making a blog post. Today we had someone that was running into this problem. What exactly is the issue? When you do a REST request and include a User and Password in the standard parameters that is turned into a Basic … Continue reading Apache Strips off Basic Authorization Header
A more attractive slider control is in range with JQuery UI Slider Pips
That's right I got dad jokes for miles 🙂 We have been having some issues with the slider control on a project. What is happening is some times the Cursor (the ball portion) of the slider doesn't show up at all, other times it shows up on the wrong plane, I haven't managed to reproduce … Continue reading A more attractive slider control is in range with JQuery UI Slider Pips
WEBDEV Date Entry got you down? Try jQuery UI DatePicker instead
There isn't a lot to like about the WEBDEV Date Entry control. In fact there isn't a lot to like about the WINDEV one either, but that is a different conversation. There are a few issues with it. We are going to solve them by using the jQuery UI DatePicker Widget First unless the user … Continue reading WEBDEV Date Entry got you down? Try jQuery UI DatePicker instead
Are you still there?
No this isn't a test of the blog, or the beginning of some creepy horror movie. It's about session management and connection timeout. Over the years we have tweak and improved our process considerably and shared bit and pieces in previous post and videos. But this will be a complete writeup and includes a sample … Continue reading Are you still there?
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