Fullscreen

[Traveller]

Hello!

I've got this little script that if one presses a link, a full screen
opens. Is it possible that screen opens itself full screen? What I
would like to do, is that my opening page starts with a full screen.


I hope someone can help.


regards

martin

 

[lallous]

Hello,

It is possible to have the page open itself in fullscreen automatically.
You would need two pages AFAIK.
The first page would do a window.open() to open the second page in a full
screen mode.
Then the second page can close the opener of the opener closes itself.

 

[Stuart Palmer]

You can't close the first instance of a webpage i.e in this case open page
one, open with window and close the opener, you will get an alert message.

Stu

 

[Richard Cornford]

This one's really tricky - I didn't know one could
do that. Very nice !!!

Because there are reasonably common browsers where it doesn't work (and
indeed throws exceptions) it can still be argued that it is not possible
to *reliably* close a window that has not been opened with JavaScript.
And it is possible that browsers that currently allow it will not allow
it in future (though Randy will point out that no one seems to be in a
hurry to fix this "bug" if I don't mention that first).

But you should also consider the consequences of this action for the
user. Closing the browser that they opened and have been using may
deprive them of their browsing history. Say, the possibility of going
back to their last page of search results and carrying on their
research. Shutting down the software that someone else is using without
their permission should be considered an unacceptable thing to be
attempting. It will annoy some and reflect badly on any site that does
it, no matter how important the authors of that site misguidedly thinks
doing that may be.

Richard.

 

[Lee]

Richard Cornford said:

Because there are reasonably common browsers where it doesn't work (and
indeed throws exceptions) it can still be argued that it is not possible
to *reliably* close a window that has not been opened with JavaScript.
And it is possible that browsers that currently allow it will not allow
it in future (though Randy will point out that no one seems to be in a
hurry to fix this "bug" if I don't mention that first).

But you should also consider the consequences of this action for the
user. Closing the browser that they opened and have been using may
deprive them of their browsing history. Say, the possibility of going
back to their last page of search results and carrying on their
research. Shutting down the software that someone else is using without
their permission should be considered an unacceptable thing to be
attempting. It will annoy some and reflect badly on any site that does
it, no matter how important the authors of that site misguidedly thinks
doing that may be.

Absolutely!

Among the most despicable things that a site can do are:
- Close my window.
- Change any feature of my window (particularly make it fullscreen).
- Play music.

 

[DB McGee]

Absolutely!

Among the most despicable things that a site can do are:
- Close my window.
- Change any feature of my window (particularly make it fullscreen).
- Play music.

Hehe

Play music is definitely one of the most annoying things. And I'm finding that
with more and more sites being developed with increasing amounts of Flash, that
there is a corresponding tendency to add audio elements. Nothing worse than
madly hunting around for the control to mute the audio - if there even is one!

 

[Richard Cornford]

... . Nothing worse than madly hunting around for
the control to mute the audio - if there even is one!

In the absence of an unambiguous and evident mute control the browser's
back button shuts noisy sites up fairly quickly. ;-)

Richard.

 

[Richard Cornford]

Theres no back button, remember? I closed the original window <g>

Drat, its got to be Alt+F4 then.

Richard.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

The irony is that I would actually love to see it fixed in IE/Opera. Maybe
Lasse can test it in the newer Opera that he has to see what it does there.

It's not just me, anybody wanting to be pre-beta-tester can download it.
See <URL:http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=eb623d127146b3f679d753ec0206c2b4&threadid=39541>

Actully, Opera allows me to close the window with no warning, just by
calling window.close. Then I press Ctrl-Z to reopen it, so it's not a
big loss I use MDI, so it won't close the application.

/L

 

[Jim Ley]

Drat, its got to be Alt+F4 then.

backspace or the "forwards/backwards" special keys that even my laptop
manages...

Jim.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

If the page is calling window.close(), to close it, and you Ctrl-Z to reopen
it, and it closes itself again........ ??

That is a problem. Then I would have to disable Javascript while I reopen it:
F12,J,Ctrl+Z, do something, F12,J
But yes, it would be nice with a warning.

/L