[SWLUG] HTML opening window to fullest extent

[neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk]

justin at discordia.org.uk wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 14:19 +0100, Neil Jones wrote:
> > I have an application which I have designed on my machine to process
> > some data. It works through the browser interface under php and apache.
> > 
> > At one point it opens a browser window to display data. Annoyingly the
> > browser isn't at full size and I have to maximise it. How would I do
> > this within the HTML that opens this window it currently uses Target
> > ="_blank"
> 
> its not done with html, its done with javascript.
> by setting the window width to the screen width, and likewise for the
> height.
> 
> but please, just dont.
> 
> As it is REALLY annoying when some web page fullscreens my browser to
> 1600x1200 just because the author thought it looked better at fullscreen
> on their 1024x768 screen.  *1
> 
> If you really really have to frob the window size, make it the size you
> actually need, not fullscreen.  but best of all, use relative sizing and
> let your page scale gracefully.
> 
> *1 and yes i know you can usually disable this in the browser setup, but
> that then also screws up the more legitimate case of small popup windows
> which need to be a certain small size.

THanks everyone for your help it works fine now.

I agree with you Justin. I wouldn't inflict this on anyone else, but this is just for me.

I am using PHP to process some of my own data and I have discovered a nice way to display it on the screen but I have alot of data to process and it is annoying when I have to resize one of the screens all the time.


I have discovered that PHP can be useful for personal data processing things as it handles the screen handling stuff well.
I just start up apache and point a  browser at 127.0.0.1

Neil Jones
Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk