Are there any Firefox extensions for site-maintenance, specifically, for checking if all the links on the site are working?
I'm currently using the LinkChecker addon, which works wonderfully, except that it can only do one page at a time.
I'm looking for something more automated, which will check each link, then go down the link and check all links within the page as well. This will continue on to check all the links on the page.
Anything that exists which can do this?
For checking links you could try the W3C Link Checker and I do believe it allows recursive checking.
The Web Developer Addon has a link checker that uses the W3C service and also provides several other tools for checking and validating web sites.
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It looks like calling the googleyolo javascript object doesn't work with chrome extensions, probably because it's using an iframe with redirect under the hood, that extensions do not like.
Am I right in thinking chrome extensions are not supported? If yes, does anyone know if there is a plan to support them?
That’s correct. Currently the API expects the calling page to not run inside an extension. We may change this in the future. However you can accomplish what you want to do via a chrome tab launch to a well known page which the extension can inject content scripts into, and notify via chrome cross tab messaging after sign in.
I used to consult Apple Developer page "UI Automation JavaScript Reference for iOS" but now the page redirects to a search page of apple that I cant find any information that was provided on the reference I want. I also google my doubts and all the results redirects me to the page that doesnt exist anymore. Does anyone know where can I consult all the methods of UIATarget class?
The page Im referring is https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/ToolsLanguages/Reference/UIATargetClassReference/
There is a saved copy of this page from July 2012 at archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120523220502/http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#/web/20120606031156/http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/ToolsLanguages/Reference/UIATargetClassReference/UIATargetClass/UIATargetClass.html
It seems like UI Automation was probably replaced by Javascript for Automation (JXA) around Yosemite.
i am evaluating Apache Sling as a potential backend CMS. I like how easy it is to push / get new content via rest. However, I also need to be able to search the content via REST. I compiled all the source code and am running their standalone jar. There are like 100 bundles installed, but I can't find a single rest query.
Some old documentation says you can do /content/mynode.query.json?
But this is not working, and there is no help on whether its supported or not. Honestly the only search option I found was in the console via /.explore.search.html/ which returns web pages.
How can you do restful search using sling?
The JsonQueryServlet, which provides an HTTP search interface was moved to a separate bundle as part of SLING-2226. See that issue's page for how to use it, and there's a related blog post at http://in-the-sling.blogspot.ch/2008/09/how-to-use-json-query-servlet.html
I have looked around the web and have found that appending #page=?? to the end of a PDF link will automatically take the visitor to that specific page in the PDF file.
I was wondering if this is still best practice as it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome on Windows 7). Also, all the articles I have found so far date back to 2006-2008, have things changed recently?
This is still valid code but it may require that some version of Acrobat (Reader, Pro, etc) be installed as a plugin on the browser in order for it to work as expected. Since multiple commonly-used browsers now have a built-in reader (Chrome, Safari for iOS are the big two that come to mind) support for direct page linking is somewhat spotty now. You can still do it...the worst case scenario is that the PDF just opens to the first page for those users but I would advise to just leave off the direct page link. If the page is that important, extract it to a separate PDF and link to that.
It is not uncommon for our intranet web applications to link to publications, documents, or other resources from our shared network file servers.
In the past, we've had little trouble fashioning links such as the following:
file://fileserver1/folderofgoodies/rules.pdf
\\fileserver1\folderofgoodies\rules.pdf
The reason we had no trouble is because everyone in the building uses IE6 or IE7 (very few have IE8). Both styles of URLs worked fine in Microsoft browsers it seems.
But if you try clicking such links in other browsers, specifically Firefox, nothing happens!
On a new intranet web app I'm developing I've been attempting to ensure cross-browser support, but any links to local computer or local network resources seem to be ignored in at least Firefox 3.5.3, though I admit I haven't yet checked other browsers.
Is there any way I can change the way I link to said files so that browsers like Firefox will accept them? I cannot do anything that requires installing scripts, software, extensions, or any other solution on a per-user/per-computer basis.
I realize the suppression of said links is a security thing, but these links would be originating from only trusted local intranet locations, so...
If this is intranet, you can build a little helper server/page/webservice/whatever to which you will link and pass file name as parameter:
http://server/getlocalfile?path=file://fileserver1/folderofgoodies/rules.pdf
And you will benefit from extended security, by the way.
I think your only option is reconfiguring Firefox, but unfortunately you said you can't do that.
You could just map the file server path as a virtual directory into your intranet site and link via http.
Mozilla applications block links to local files. The only way is to install plugin(s) to Firefox. This link describes some of them.