Ive Googled and stackoverflowed since earlier on today and i just cant find a solution. I'm looking for a way using JQuery/JS to open up a webpage ive created with a maximized window. So on the page loading whichever browser the user is using, my webpage will be displayed as though the user has hit the maximise button on their browser, but automatically on load.
I need to make an interactive website which is best displayed maximised, any ideas? Btw im very new to building websites so any solution JS fiddle based or properly explained would be so much appreciated.
THANKS :)
For security reasons, JavaScript cannot change the window's size (including minimizing or maximizing it).
You can, however, open a new window set to a certain size - but not automatically - only in response to user interaction, like a click on the page (again, for security reasons).
I don't know what your site's content is - but if it isn't flexible enough to fit different screen sizes (like a game, maybe?) then your best bet from a user experience perspective may be to just put some text up somewhere on the page that says something like "Site best viewed in fullscreen". Or, if it is something like a game, maybe a nice big button on the homepage that says "Launch Game"?
Your best bet, however, is to have your content fit any screen size/shape. This is often called things like "responsive webdesign", and there's tons of info out there on how to design a website responsively, as well as how to implement said design.
Good luck!
window.innerHeight and window.innerWidth
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_win_innerheight.asp
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I have a use case where I need to open a small iframe to Bing. It has a min-width property of 990px and I only have about 400px to work with, so I am trying to open it as a mobile site.
As far as I can tell, Bing looks at user agent to determine the site version it should serve. However, from my research it appears that it's not possible to give an iframe a custom user agent. Did I misunderstand? Or is there some other way to force mobile?
Bing is not responsive to just limiting the width of the frame, which is what everyone seems to give as the "answer" for this sort of question.
This is not a "fix my code" question - I am trying to find the right approach to this problem, and have not found any way to get what I want to happen.
This is a one page scrolling site for kids. The content is best viewed at 1200 pixels wide. Is there a way I can make the window default to that size when the site is visited?
No, but you can have a landing page with a button on it that opens your desired page using window.open, and you can tell window.open how big you want the window it opens to be.
Details here, but basically (inside a click handler or similar):
window.open("http://example.com", "width=1200");
This is a suggestion to the browser, which it can ignore if it likes, but a value in that range is likely to be fine. (Whereas browsers tend to disallow very small windows.) You can also specify height, whether it has various window features, etc.
Of course, if you can make the page work well in any width, that would be better. Some of us are positively irritated by sites that try to tell us how wide our browser windows should be. :-)
You can open a new window of specific size on a click of a link/button using window.open like :
<a href="some url"
onclick="window.open(this.href,'targetWindow',
'width=700px,
height=700px');
return false;">Popup link</a>
There are two ways you can do this:
Using a div, iframe, or other element to contain everything on your page and specify the size on it. This won't change the actual size of the browser window.
Open a new window (popup) and specify a size on that. Note that if it's not done as part of the user clicking on something, it will likely be blocked by the browser's popup blocker. More info can be found here
Both of those are ignoring any issues with trying to force a size on the user. Things like:
What if their screen isn't large enough?
Will this be annoying to my users?
What if my user resizes the window?
Will all browsers support the resizing I'm after?
Will trying to resize cause horizontal scroll bars?
In general you should aim for something that can work across multiple sizes, but have a more reasonable minimum size. 1024x768 is usually a good resolution to aim for. This will much around with mobile browsers, but I presume you're not worried about those.
I'm building a mobile site for a great magazine with a lot of content that is partly heavily. The problem now is that I have to hide the entire right column on the mobile site (yes, I need it in this case).
I've done a great research on mobile design, read a lot of articles, but can't find a solution that addresses this problem. It's usual to hide the right column with CSS or JS. But then everything still loaded. In this case the right column is so big, with a lot of content, it seems worthwhile to not load it for the page to load faster.
What should I do?
You should be able to detect the user's browser on the backend (I assume you're using PHP) and then make a simple control structure where you decide whether to load or not load that right-hand column on your site.
Here are some libraries that you may find useful (obviously you shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel for such a trivial task):
http://mobiledetect.net/
https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect
http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/ (uses regex)
If you think that it is not a problem that mobile users wont be able to see that content, then you should not load it. There are php classes to check for mobile devices and based on that you can decide to not load some part of content. There is one problem - php class can only base on user agent settings, not browser size, so in theory someone with high resolution mobile device wont be able to see that content anyway.
One more idea on my mind - you can not load content in php, but after general content is loaded, check in js viewport width and eventually load part of content by ajax if there is enough place.
In summary, as we dont know your site content, it is up to you to decide if you can afford to not show part of content at all (for mobile devices). In this case when resolution change, users still wont be able to see it (i.e. changing device position horizontal to vertical). Of course in this case page will load faster, which also migh be crucial for mobile internet connections.
I have a web page with a fixed-size layout, it's fine in its current implementation even if it's far from "state of art", but a little too high for a mobile device screen.
Since the "header" part doesn't really matter to anyone, everyone wants to immediately pan / scroll down a little when viewing the page on a mobile device (or, broadly speaking, on a viewport shorter than the page fixed height).
Is there some HTML or JS magic I can do to tell the browser to start displaying the page already-scrolled-down X pixels?
You can try something like links and anchors.
http://www.yourdomain.com/main.html#bottom
If you're using jQuery, you could try scrollTo. You'll need to work out where on the page your target is, though...
Anchors is one solution, but the way I find really nice is to use http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/LocalScroll. So use can detect User Agent in Javascript and scroll down in proper place using this plugin.
Cheers!
Not sure anchors would work if you are trying to implement this on the homepage.
If the header is completely pointless in mobile browser this you could use html to detect that a mobile browser is being used then from this load CSS with the header hidden, or load it at the bottom perhaps. If this sounds like a viable option I can post examples.
Has anyone built anything using the new "fluid canvas"?
Besides the sample code not working in IE 8, are there any other problems with doing this?
I'm wondering if I would be nuts to build an application using this? I mean, what would I do, check the available width of the screen and do different things for every user?
Isn't this prone to error? Any thoughts?
Thanks!
even for "fluid" canvas, it is very likely that we are not going to check the available width of the screen (as the screen/browser window can be resize dynamically by the user).
instead, as it is an iframe, it is exactly the same way how we should built the canvas / web page that meet our needs or show best to the user by making use of the full width of the browser window.