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I'm looking for a tool that will let a small group of people annotate a shared HTML document and read each others' annotations. I plan to use it for managing reviews of documentation that I write.
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I generally do not respond to flamers, but there's enough substance in what you said to warrant a reply.

You said, "SSL won't work." That's true, and it's something I didn't consider. I know the...

svidgen, you baffle me. I didn't get a satisfactory solution to the problem here, so when I got one elsewhere I came back and shared it. For that, you volunteered your opinion that I'm a jerk. You're...

I posted the question on another board, and I got a reply from a different perspective that cleared up the issue nicely.

First, I was advised that the "up to 48 hours" of refresh time, which I got...

It appears to me that we've gotten away from the original topic by focusing on the purely technical side of the problem, then getting "stuck" there when we found no good purely technical fix.
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I'm having a rewrite problem that I don't know how to fix.

This started with functioning production and staging sites on a host which my client (for good reason) considered unsatisfactory. I got...

One of us is missing something.

I said that if a user's DNS is updated while the user is in a session, the user will lose the session because their next page load will be directed to the new...

Um, there seems to be a misunderstanding here. I think we've gone in a circle.

I described a problem whose only obvious solution created an unacceptably long service outage. You proposed a...

The OP's question looks profoundly different to me than it does to Spufi.

I think of web design as primarily a creative, rather than a technical activity. HTML, CSS, etc. are skills that anyone...

That's one of the solutions I thought of, and in general it seems to be the most feasible one. I see a serious problem with it, though, and I don't know whether it has a reasonable solution.

The...

I need some advice on how to move a web site from one host to another. The difficulty is that this web site interacts with the user and writes information to a database.

If I simply move the site...

Tech support turned out to be right: it was a bug.

This was a classic case of looking failing to solve a problem by approaching it logically when the cause was completely off the wall.

While...

I'm moving a working site to a new host, and I've got a puzzling problem with URL rewrite rules.

The new host is giving me 404's when I try to load a page that requires rewriting. It appears to be...

In the course of preparing a simplified version of the file to demonstrate the problem, I figured it out.

One of the other people on our team added "hover" definitions to the stylesheet. They...

A client's web site is showing baffling behavior in Internet Explorer 8. I'm looking for advice on the cause.

The site has a series of hyperlinks containing images. When the mouse is floated over...

The only dumb question is the one that isn't asked...

But the answer is that that's precisely what the PHP shell simulator tries to do. If it can't, I don't think I'll have better luck with a...

My client is going to change hosting services, and I'm strongly inclined to recommend that they move from a shared host to a virtual private host. We've had repeated problems with things that our...

Welsh, I'm puzzled by your concentration on a question that isn't part of my problem. If you're just curious I'm happy to respond as well as I can, but I wonder if you still don't understand what the...

Welsh: I'll set up the cron job using the host's Control Panel. I don't know where the cron file is stored, but if I have access to it and want to work harder, I can FTP it.

The script scans the...

I'm developing a script that will ultimately run in a cron job on my client's site, which runs on a rather restrictive hosted server. Having debugged it on my development system, I'm trying to test...

Thank you, NogDog, that's exactly what I was looking for.

The "how do you validate?" question seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what I meant by "validate." "Authorize" would have been a...

I need some assistance thinking about how to approach a problem of delivering data securely.

The data is a PDF file that resides on the server. My mission is to display it in a new tab or window...

I'm thinking in the same terms -- not as a solution to the problem, but as a means of determining whether changing hosts would solve the problem.

This is not the first problem we've had with...

My client gave me IDs for about a dozen messages that weren't delivered, and they were all addressed to accounts on free mail services: gmail, Hotmail, etc. That seems to argue against the...

tracknut: the host is GoDaddy. (Disclaimer: the host was in use before I acquired the client.)

EfV: the emails are being sent by a PHP script that calls the mail function (and would log an error...