[Javascript] opening window

Ben ben at babelfish.co.uk
Wed Jun 13 09:36:38 CDT 2001


How about using that same syntax but specifying the height and width too?

 .b

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Myers" <rodney at aflyingstart.net>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] opening window


> I tried rhh's code too (new to me) and found same thing in Netscape 4.7
> In MSIE it opens a full screen window without the title bar and
resize/close icons.
> I thought that F11 would change it to a default size but it did not.
> To close it I had to resort to Alt+F4
>
> BTW the syntax
> 'fullscreen=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,location=yes'
> worked just as well, as the (what to me was) less familiar
> 'fullscreen=yes','menubar=yes',...
>
> I have the feeling that the language terms that users might apply to such
a window would not be such
> as John Stuart Mill would submit to his publisher.
>
> Personally I am more interested in smaller plain windows of this ilk
>
> Rodney
>
>
> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
>
> > rhh wrote:
> > >
> > >
window.open('inicio.htm','inicio','fullscreen=yes','menubar=yes','scrollbars
> > > =yes','toolbar=yes','location=yes');
> >
> > This doesn't work on NN4.7/Win, at least (doesn't "fullscreen",
> > doesn't remove the title bar and decorations) ...
> >
> > The original question:
> >
> > >    Is it possible to get rid of the top part of a window, the part
with the
> > > minimize and X buttons? If it is possible could you please explain
how.
> >
> > Rodney Myers <rodney at aflyingstart.net> quotes:
> >
> > > In the Wrox "Professional Javascript" book there is a note in Ch5
'Windows and Frames' on page
> > > 163
> > >
> > > "The title bar and its close and resize icons are added by the
computer's operating system, not
> > > the browser, and aren't visible inside JavaScript. You're stuck with
them, unless you create an
> > > ActiveX control that specifically removes them"
> >
> > ... which is correct. (More precisely, it's the window manager that
> > adds those items, an academic point with Windoze, more significant
> > in the Unix/Linux/X11 world - and ActiveX is Win-specific.)
> >
> > FWIW!
> > --
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