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<button> vs. <input type="button"> -- which to use?
When looking at most sites (including SO), most of them use:
<input type="button" />
instead of:
<button></button>
What are the main differences between the two, if any?
Are there ...
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How to define nested arguments?
I'm trying to compile my code into a Python 3 module. It runs fine when I choose "Run module" in IDLE, but receive the following syntax error when I try to create a distribution:
File "/...
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Can Java 8 code be compiled to run on Java 7 JVM?
Java 8 introduces important new language features such as lambda expressions.
Are these changes in the language accompanied by such significant changes in the compiled bytecode that would prevent it ...
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How to install both Python 2.x and Python 3.x in Windows [duplicate]
I do most of my programming in Python 3.x on Windows 7, but now I need to use the Python Imaging Library (PIL), ImageMagick, and wxPython, all of which require Python 2.x.
Can I have both Python 2.x ...
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Java 32-bit vs 64-bit compatibility
Will Java code built and compiled against a 32-bit JDK into 32-bit byte code work in a 64-bit JVM? Or does a 64-bit JVM require 64-bit byte code?
To give a little more detail, I have code that was ...
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How to avoid compatibility issues between Java EE and Jakarta EE?
After Oracle donated Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, it was renamed to Jakarta EE.
With that, the javax namespace was changed to jakarta.
What does one need to take care about in order to avoid ...
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Incompatible magic value 1008813135
I am writing a Java applet and embedding it in a web page.
It used to run Mac and Windows in different browsers without problem.
I was using NetBeans on the Mac to build the .jar file the applet used.
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Was PreferenceFragment intentionally excluded from the compatibility package?
I'm looking to write preferences that can be applied to both 3.0 and pre-3.0 devices. Discovering that PreferenceActivity contains deprecated methods (although these are used in the accompanying ...
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Uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::Dependencies::Mutex (NameError)
When I want to create a Ruby on Rails project, I get the message below.
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:55: uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::...
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answers
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OnGlobalLayoutListener: deprecation and compatibility
I have to use an OnGlobalLayoutListener object and then to remove the listener, I had a problem with deprecated methods that I resolve with following code.
protected void onCreate(Bundle ...
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Internet Explorer 11 disable "display intranet sites in compatibility view" via meta tag not working
I have been working on an intranet website for over 6 months
were I have been using the below html5 doctype and edge compatibility meta tag to force Internet Explorer to not emulate an older browser ...
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Where can I find a definitive Selenium WebDriver to Firefox Compatibility Matrix? [closed]
I have worked on a number of projects using Selenium Java and the Firefox Web Driver, on a variety of platforms. Time and again, I come across incompatibilities between the version of the Selenium ...
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Is it possible to run a .NET 4.5 app on XP?
First, I have read the following:
Connect case
VS case
and especially this channel9 post
So, from the last bullet, I really think there is no way around this, but I had to see if I could get a ...
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Gradle sourceCompatibility has no effect to subprojects
I have Java 6 and 7 installed on my machine. Gradle uses 1.7 (checked using gradle -v). But I need to compile my code to be compatible with Java 1.6. As far as I understand the documentation I can use ...
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Effective maximum mailto: body lengths
There is a maximum length for the text in the &body section of a mailto: link. According to one of my co-workers, the W3C publish the limit as 256 (I don't have a link to back this up, though).
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How to deal with deprecated classes in Android to keep compatibility
I am getting back to work on an app I worked on a while ago, when I had everything built around Android 2.2 Froyo.
I have updated my SDK for the latest APIs and noticed that the ClipboardManager ...
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answers
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How to find out if a Python object is a string?
How can I check if a Python object is a string (either regular or Unicode)?
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answers
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How to set IE11 Document mode to edge as default?
I have Internet Explorer installed on my computer but needed to test compatibility mode of IE 7. After changing the document mode to IE 7, it set it as default and now I can't change it. The default ...
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Alternative to sun.misc.Signal
I started research to find an alternative to the sun.misc.Signal class, because it could be unsupported in upcoming JDKs (we're currently working on 1.6). When I build the project I get:
warning: ...
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Android: Tint using DrawableCompat
I'm trying to tint an image prior to Android API level 21. I've successfully tinted items using:
<android:tint="@color/red"/>
However, I can't seem to figure out how to do this through code on ...
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votes
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answers
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Creating Library with backward compatible ABI that uses Boost
I'm working on a certain C++ library (or more framework). I want to make it backward
compatible with previous versions preserving not only API compatibility but also ABI (like the great job Qt does).
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python 2.7 equivalent of built-in method int.from_bytes
I'm trying to make my project python2.7 and 3 compatible and python 3 has the built in method int.from_bytes. Does the equivalent exist in python 2.7 or rather what would be the best way to make this ...
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votes
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Force IE 11 "User agent string" using tags
My website is broken in IE11.
We all know that HTML tags allow developer to force IE compatibility mode; in example
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8, IE=9" />
worked great and ...
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votes
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answers
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iOS 11 safe area layout guide backwards compatibility
Is enabling Safe Area Layout Guides compatible to iOS below 11?
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Are windows phone 7 apps compatible on windows phone 8 devices?
very straight forward question. My company has developed a windows phone 7 app and have been testing it on a windows phone 7 device. Can we safely assume that the same app will be backwards compatible ...
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