Show Full Screen in PHP

Anon

Is there a way to force the viewer to have the page full screen in Internet Explorer without having him press F11?
Gives much more room on the page for data.

Tried a method suggested on this forum in June but could not get it to work.
Can one also get rid of the buttons on the top so that writer has control of using Back button etc.
Appreciate help.
Paul

jordan

Not only is this a JavaScript question, not a PHP question, but it's also a horrible, horrible (HORRIBLE) idea in terms of usability. In the age of popups and pop-unders, when a web site does something without asking, many (most?) users' first impulse is to close the window. When a user closes your window, you've just lost a visitor. Don't ever, ever do anything without the making sure the user absolutely WANTS to do it first. Otherwise you're never going to have a single repeat visitor, and you're never going to make a dime.

Anon

Thanks for the fast reply to my query on asking how to make a browser, IE, go full screen.

You say it is a javascript question not PHP. Hmmmm! I'm working in PHP. In this forum there are 54000 items on all sorts of subjects associates with PHP; and many real gems. I see how to save in Excel format. Should this not be in this forum because it mentions the word Excel. I see discussion on how to produce a PDF formatted document using PHP. Shouldn't be here because it mentions PDF.

Who knows what some bright spark might have come up with to produce a bit of PHP code to force the browser up to full screen. In fact there is a bit of code mentioned a few weeks back; but I could not get it to work.

Regarding the rest of your comment as to usabiltity, yes, I'm fed up with pop-up adverts and the like. However what makes you think that just because I am using IE, I am using it to sell something and make a dime. Actually I am using it to show data from a database. Now 15% of the screen is taken up with heading, menus, buttons and address window. I've seen those lovely IE/Netscape buttons before, in fact I've been staring at them for five years wondering why they waste so much of my screen, beautiful though they may be.

With full screen I can get a heap more data on the screen, more satisfying and useful for the user. Further more the full screen is less claustophobic. Press F11 sometime and try it. Gosh it looks so much better.

How come we've ended up with so much garbage at the top of the screen. Browsers are being used more and more in areas other than trying to sell something and make a dime. This is why PHP is so Whizzzz.

Back to my question - is there an easy way to make the view go full screen from an HTML/PHP environment? I could always tell them to press F11 I suppose, but people often fail to read simple instruction like this. Anybody out there got any goooood responses?

Paul

PS I am not sure that your --- horrible, horrible (HORRIBLE) --- is appropriate. I feel it was a bit over the top. By the way, how do you spell flaming?