popup : no close button

[chartrandi]

Good day!
1) I need to open a link in a brand new window, and it mustn't have ANYTHING around it, especially not the minimize/maximize/close buttons. Any suggestion? Even chromeless windows code I have encountered have the close button.

and for curious people, no it's not for ads, it's for launching a course with it's own navigation in flash, so I don't want people to close the course with the usual "X" on the right handside corner of the window.


thanks for your help!

[Bobo]

Have you tried

window.open('URL','_new','[B]title=0[/B] status=0 etc....')

If the title bar is gone, the close button should go with it.

[Choopernickel]

How are you going to get around ALT+F4 or CTRL+W, then, to prevent the closing of a window.

All I can tell you to do is look at kiosk-mode (fullscreen) browsing, or supply an executable for download.

[chartrandi]

tried the title=0 thing, doesn't work..

as far as the shortcuts, I wouldn't worry about it, people using the program aren't really used to computers so they won't think of it.

[A1ien51]

ONLY way to do this would be having fun with layers and an iframe
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You can not remove the buttons unless you do the fullscreen as mentioned before.

[chartrandi]

hmm that's not useful for me because in full screen it streches the flash file and with bitmaps embedded in them ...hmmm it's makes them blurry.

is there a way to just DISABLE the close button then? just as you would disable the back button in the regular icons?

[Garadon]

I don't think you can remove the caption bar of the browser without using IE's fullscreen function which as the name implies is IE only. so you will need a chromeless script such as the one you mentioned your using, and if you can't find your self how to get it to not make a caption bar then perhaps post a link to where you got the script from.

[beetle]

you can remove it, but you have to build your HTML file as an HTA, which must be signed - so they're not an option for the web - but they work great for intranets or kiosk-type setups.

[Basscyst]

I think you could also place an Iframe inside of the full screen window that has no buttons and disable the alt \ control buttons assuming they arn't needed for the test?

Basscyst

[beetle]

Indeed, an IFRAME would be the most web-friendly, non-intrusive solution, given the requirements you supplied.