I want to write a webextension that displays a tiny dialog to obtain some sensitive data from users. However, I do not what thieves.com to be able to produce a dialog that looks exactly like the one I would be presenting.
Is there any way to do that in any of the common browsers? One thought would be to put the dialog in the URL bar, which I do not think is possible from a web page. But is that really impossible from a web page and is it possible using a normal extension?
Another option might be something like the ctrl-alt-delete that used to protect windows. Have the user type some keystroke that cannot be intercepted by javascript.
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I'm just trying out a simple app in the CocoonJS launcher which contains some links that open some external page.
This works fine, but the problem is that I can't identify a way to go back a page (i.e. history back). The launcher app just displays the page in fullscreen, no user controls visible at all. This is troublesome, because when my users tap on an ad, I want them to be able to go back to the game.
Am I missing something or is this simply not supported?
I do not know of any way to display a navigation bar or something similar.
Nevertheless, you can open your external urls via Cocoon.App.openURL(url); which will enable the user to open it via a normal browser where you can navigate back.
Regards.
I agree with the solution proposed by Scdev. Also, interstitials or fullscreen ads usually have a dismiss button themselves. I might be misunderstanding something.
Regards,
Iker.
Our application is a one-page application created using ExtJs. For any user action, the browser tab is never reloaded and all the actions are performed using ajax. A user can open/close multiple ExtJs windows/panels within the same browser tab, and this way everything remains confined to the same browser tab.
Now, we need to integrate payment gateway in the application, which involves redirecting the user to the bank website and having her brought back to our application.
The issue is that when browser redirects the user, then all the application javascript code along with panels and windows get destroyed, and when the user comes back to the application then she finds it to be different from one she left.
As a solution to this, we were thinking of using following two appraoches:
Option 1. Maintaining the state of application - When user leaves for the bank's website then somehow we maintain the state of application - like which windows are opened carrying what data, which variables have which values etc.. and when user returns back, we generate the same application state for her.
Option 2. Have a browser pop-up window for payment gateway - We intend to provide a button which will open a small pop-up window carrying the transaction details, and in this pop-up window the entire payment gateway process will take place taking care of redirection and everything.
Option 1 is proving to be very cumbersome and complicated as maintaining the exact state is not getting feasible.
For Option 2, we are not sure if this is safe and possible?
Has anyone implemented such an approach earlier. Otherwise, what are the other options which we can go for?
Thanks for any help in advance.
I faced the problem and I implemented it using websocket/polling in the main application while a new window pops up for the payment.
After the payment is successful the main application will be notified.
That way each payment runs in it own sandbox totally unbound from the main application which makes maintenance quite easy. Note that our backend create a new session for each payment using the existing one.
I think it is not uncommon to open new windows for payment that's why I decided to go this.
I'd like to use the Notification API to create toast notifications for a Silverlight app designed to run both in and out of the browser, but the NotificationWindow class is only available OOB.
Does there exist anything that can replicate the behaviour inside the app? My idea is to have a container in the bottom right of the screen overlaying all other content. Then, create a wrapper which detects OOB-mode, passing params to the Notification API if possible, or populating and showing my own container if not. Is there anything that does this available?
It seems strange that MS chose not to implement something like this, as has been pointed out before.
Displaying a notification in browser is simple. You just need to use a popup and make it appear in the right place. See the following post as an example.
Now the difference with that approach is that the notification will show inside the browser. In OOB it shows outside the window and it's visible even if the windows is minimized. Due to security reasons it's not possible to directly do this.
Out of interest, Chrome Applications like Tweetdeck and Gmail, are able to display notifications outside of the browser. I think this might be a possiblity, but not exactly a Silverlight and cross browser solution.
I'm using cakephp and I'm trying to implement a modal-window for login and singup, similar to the one in Digg.com "Join Digg! - Login". Does anyone knows about a library/plugin/tutorial/screencast or what ever to achieve a "login modal" in CakePHP?
By the way I already have working all the registration and authentication process, I just need the a modal example, how can I do that?
Thanks!
The popup on Digg is implemented in JavaScript. It looks like they might have their own code for it. One easy alternative that looks very similar is Fancybox. You can set up your login as its own page and show it in an iframe inside Fancybox's popup.
If you look through the Fancybox documentation, you'll find you can hook onto various open/close events which you might use (for example) to reload the main page for the newly authenticated user.
There are other popular "lightbox" JS implementations out there if Fancybox doesn't suit your needs.
You probably don't need a lot of CakePHP magic to make this work—or rather, you've already implemented the magic you DO need.
CakePHP doesn't have any built-in functionality to create modal windows, but jQuery UI does: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/
I'd recommend this because it's a standard solution and pretty simple to set up. This is what I always use on CakePHP sites for creating and dealing with modal windows.
The problem I am having is filtering out the users that come to our homepage just to login, since we have the client button on the homepage (and yes I've tried to get them to put it somewhere else).
I can't think of a way to do it because they don't look any different than potential clients, other than that they may visit more often and click on the button. Any ideas or software that might accomplish this?
one way, is to associate a cookie with those users and either a) don't load the tracking code when cookie is present, or b) in Analytics Settings -> Filter Manager, add an exclusion pattern matching the cookie name. a) would be more flexible.
now, there's no way to tell if the user is going to stay on the main site or hop to the client area... so it might undercount in some cases. but you might find that better than the overcount showing up now...
a slightly more intrusive option, would be a JavaScript overlay / splash screen that shows up when you detect a user returning that asks them, "Would you like to go directly to your client area? [YES] [NO, TAKE ME TO THE MAIN SITE]". in that case, the tracking code wouldn't be loaded unless, they say are going to the main site...
if using the filter manager method, you'll want to register the variable like so:
<body onLoad=”javascript:pageTracker._setVar('my_cookie_name_guid')”>