Desktop, Web, Web Technologies

How to determine a given web page/site is using HTML5 and not its older versions

  Requirement: You are a programmer/web developer/QA tester, you require to ensure that web page designed/tested is using HTML5.  How to find HTML version of Web page: Any browser detects the HTML version of the web pages by reading the very first line of a web page that is a declaration of <!DOCTYPE>.  The <!DOCTYPE> is not an HTML tag. It’s the very first instruction to the browser about what version of HTML the page is written in and/or what version of HTML to be used to render the page correctly. Example:  In below case the web page is using […]

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Desktop, Repackaging

Internet Explorer: Registry equivalents or tweaks to list all ActiveX Add-ons listed in Internet Explorer “Manage Add-ons” Show “All add-ons” feature

Environment:  Windows 7 x64 bit + Internet Explorer 11 Requirement: You want to programmatically determine what all add-ons installed on your Windows 7 systems.  To do this you need to know where IE saves all of its Add-ons configuration/details. Solution: Here is a quick list of various locations that IE look for all of its add-ons on the system.  This list is obtained by profiling the IE browser while doing operation of: Internet Options > Manage Add-ons > In Show: drop down list > Select “All Add-ons” as shown below: Resultant list of Internet Explorer browser add-on registry paths: Sl.No […]

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Scripting, Server

Configuring Php and ASP.Net web pages on single IIS Web site

Requirement:  You have an IIS web server.  You want to host all Php as well as ASP.Net developed web pages from the same web server and further with the same site name.  Thus you end up need to configure both Php as well ASP.Net pages from the same IIS site.   Options: This can be setup by ensuring below configuration for both of the technologies: A Proper Handler Mapping for *.aspx the respective handler will be auto configured for *.php you need to ensure a proper handler is setup if you are installing it manually Then you can set the […]

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