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Mar 05.2004

I am using this code to open a window in which I will display a Flash swf file.

[CODE]
function plainWindow()
{
plain_window =
window.open(“m1j.html”,”windowname”,”width=800,height=600″);

}
[/CODE]

Is it possible to open a window that has absolutely no blue browser bar at the top and no border either? In effect I want this to open without seeing anything of the window at all – completely invisible!
I am developing something that will be used on CD and web – I can publish that from Flash as an exe for the CD version which will then take out everything else on the screen, but I would rather the web version could also appear on a totally clean screen.
Any ideas very gratefully accepted!

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@VladdyMar 05.2004 — One suggestion.

Your web site, off CD or server, is a guest in the user browser window. Learn to design so that it stays there, any other approach will make 99.9% visitors reach for the back/close button.
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@alpha_channelauthorMar 05.2004 — Please dont get aggressive, I'm not trying to take over the world, just deliver some inhouse training on an intranet! The whole thing is as user friendly as poss with lots of easy to use buttons to move to different elements or close down the whole thing whenever they have had enough.

Its not out in the public domain and the users relationship to it is completely different from a user browsing freely on the web, where one has complete freedom as to whether to look at it or not.

As they will all be given a CD it would just make it simpler for the user if it could look exactly the same when delivered from the intranet as it will be by CD.

My question was just is it possible to open a window without any border or topbar - invisible edges.??
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@jaegernautMar 05.2004 — In the end, I believe the answer is no.

I believe I've seen on this forum where there is a way to do this with IE 6 only, but nothing that will work across all browsers.

Do you have control over what browsers they use?

I have some internal web pages that I can use IE only "fixes" because my office requires the personnel to use IE.

Check this thread: http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29377&highlight=Chromeless
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@alpha_channelauthorMar 05.2004 — Thanks for that - I was just asking possibilities, didnt realise it was a means to set up a major heist as well!!

They are all using IE, but not necessarily version 6, so looks as though I may have to rethink this one.

By the way I tried going to the other thread and using that link - but just got an empty page? I have downloaded all security patches on my own IE6 however, so I suppose the chromeless windows are going to be disabled for me anyway.
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