aagee said:
Hi all
Can someone clue me in on this? I just noticed that following doesn't
work as it used to:
window.open(... "fullscreen=yes" ...)
Used to get a window that occupied the whole screen; now I get the
title bar and status bar too. Any ideas?
Yes, Windows XP Service Pack 2 offered a number of security related
enhancements to Internet Explorer, this being one of them.
Users of Internet Explorer got sick of Web sites opening a window
fullscreen and "stealing" their desktop. In a lot of cases, people had no
idea how to rid themselves of the fullscreen page. Many Windows users do
not know about Alt+Tab and even those that do found themselves in a
situation where they could Alt+Tab away from the fullscreen IE window,
but when they returned to Internet Explorer, they found it occupying
their entire desktop again.
Of course, the simple solution to the problem is to bring the fullscreen
IE window into focus and hit Alt+F4 to close it - assuming the site
author hasn't written client-side JavaScript to intercept Alt+F4, which
I've also seen - however, the sequence of commands to close the
fullscreen window can be considered pretty complicated for a lot of
computer users, and I've seen people hit the reset button when presented
with a fullscreen IE window they could not figure out how to close.
To remove some user anxiety and make the Web a less hostile place,
Microsoft has wisely chosen to now display a title and status bar on
every newly opened window by default - the status bar (and perhaps the
titlebar) can be removed by the end-user if they so wish, but the Web
site author has no control over those settings.
Even if you have no malicious intent, the potential for mis-use remains,
and as a result, the functionality has been removed.
More details about the new features in IE is available at: <url:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/technologiesoverview.mspx#EBAA />
and <url:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx />.