help in designing a project
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hi all, I need to build a project for school in C# I need to build a generic application that is tracking the user when he enters a website. meaning I want to know on which buttons he clicked(and how many times), the position of the mouse at any giving time etc. I thought of 2 ways to implement it 1. to install the application on the website and by using JS to get all the information 2. to bulid an add-in to the browser, and from that to get all the information what do you think I should do? can you give me advantages and disadvantages ? thanks
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hi all, I need to build a project for school in C# I need to build a generic application that is tracking the user when he enters a website. meaning I want to know on which buttons he clicked(and how many times), the position of the mouse at any giving time etc. I thought of 2 ways to implement it 1. to install the application on the website and by using JS to get all the information 2. to bulid an add-in to the browser, and from that to get all the information what do you think I should do? can you give me advantages and disadvantages ? thanks
Hmmm... by add-in do you mean something specific to browser (like an ActiveX control or something). If that is so, I guess it can be used if you are cent percent sure your users would use the same browser. JS way looks good to me as you can capture all these events and probably make AJAX calls to retrive the information and send them to server.
------------------------------------------- It's code that drives you - Shyam
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Hmmm... by add-in do you mean something specific to browser (like an ActiveX control or something). If that is so, I guess it can be used if you are cent percent sure your users would use the same browser. JS way looks good to me as you can capture all these events and probably make AJAX calls to retrive the information and send them to server.
------------------------------------------- It's code that drives you - Shyam
Browser addin can do anything, so you will be able to do whatever you want to do. But, you will have to create separate addins for separate browsers. There is no way to create a generic addin that can be installed with all browsers. So you have that challage there... I also think JS will be the most feasible solution...
Charith Jayasundara
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Browser addin can do anything, so you will be able to do whatever you want to do. But, you will have to create separate addins for separate browsers. There is no way to create a generic addin that can be installed with all browsers. So you have that challage there... I also think JS will be the most feasible solution...
Charith Jayasundara
thanks for your answers if i'm building an add-in using WPF can't it work with firefox?
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thanks for your answers if i'm building an add-in using WPF can't it work with firefox?
I'm not an expert in browser-specific programming, so I can't answer you specific questions. The general problem to face is not what you are using inside your add-in but the problem is that different browsers have different plug-in interfaces and underlying programming models. Regards Thomas
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