webbrowser
Type directly in the adress bar
If browsing a website requires a selection from a list or passing by page 7 and 8 for example in order to go from page 6 to 9, then you can take a better look at the address bar.
Most of the time, it possible to send the variables the server seem to need directly in the address bar. Check how the URL changes while browsing for a while, after a short time, you will get notice some sort of a pattern. Use it to navigate faster.
For example, type the number of the page you'd like to read directly in the URL by replacing the number that seems to change when reading online. After noticing what variable in the URL changes with the chapter, you will also be able to avoid using the selection list.
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Browsing on mobile phones
Browsing with your phone is not always as pleasant as using your computer. Sometimes clicking a button or selecting something from a list is not understood by the phone or require a lot of time to be processed or understood. For example when using a smart phone for reading an online comic, manga or book online, sometimes changing the chapter too fast will lead to a crash.
are there tricks for fast browsing ?
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Specification of a WEB GUI for several user groups
For telecommunication solutions software packages are released to the customers. This packages consist of several components, which are combined and released.
In principle, each component offers full functionality, which can be restricted according to those features the customer has ordered. Furthermore language-specific adaptions are done (e-g- for German, English).
The main steps in the workflow are
- Product specification. The components of the released product are defined
- Customization. Adaption by restricting the features for specific customers
- Language Adaptions.
All those steps are performed by specific user groups with specific functionality and rights.
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Running WEB tests as JUnit tests
The test records clicks, userInput and can be replayed. Furthermore JUnit tests are performed and recorded.
Make the Navigation Menu user specific
For a workflow application serveral user types are defined. In general, depending on their roles, users have different rights. In particular the navigation menu must be user specific (e.g. some users may have write access, others only read access ).
Using CSS Hacks to deal with browser inconsistencies (IE)
There are numerous approaches to deal with this quite annoying issue. One pretty common and quite practical workaround is using CSS Hacks exploiding a webbrowser's parsing bug or non-compliant 'processing'.
Special annotations in CSS-files enables to hide or display certain sections to serve up the 'correct' values to corresponding browsers.
Lines annotaded with * are processed by IE-Browsers only.
e.g.:* aBox {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
}
Another specific hack is defining special conditions as comments within the HTML in order to load browser's corresponding css file:
e.g::< !--[if IE] >
< link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iehacks.css" / >
< ![endif]-- >
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Displaying Websites on IE Browsers correctly
As most non-flash sites use xhtml and css only, webdesigner (or those who realize such tricky designs) must face with issues that in the end this website has to be displayed correctly — some kind of platform/browser independency. Indeed, (X)HTML is standardized by the W3C, but web-browser render websites totally differently — caused by bugs mostly (IE). This becomes quite cruical, as for ex. designs require precisely fitting their components.
