Redirecting, Fullscreen, Chromeless

Redirecting to fullscreen page..

[Impolex]

Tried searching these forums...Tried searching the web...could not, for the life of me, find the script I was looking for...

I am trying to:

Redirect a visitor of my website to a page that will open fullscreen, chromeless, using IE6.

So that when a visitor types the adress of my site into their browser they will automatically be redirected to a page that will open full screen(takes up entire desktop) and chromeless, all using the same browser window...no pop-ups.

Is this possible?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I've been searching for 2 days and I'm at a dead end. Any help would be VERY appreciated! And I will make sure Santa puts you on his "Nice" list! Cause Santa and I are tight like that. ;o)

-Impolex

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, impolex.

No, it's not possible to strip the chrome frome the existing browser window. To allow that would open up security holes you could sail a fleet through...to say nothing of crippling your visitor's ability to leave your site.

As you've probably run into - you need to generate a new window to get that full-screen, chromeless look.

[Impolex]

Not possible...I feared that would be the answer.

Ok...then how about this..

Automatic pop-up that opens to fullscreen(entire desktop,... yes I realize this would cripple my visitors ability to leave my site, bar ALT+F4, but I am not worried about that, it is a small personal site that only a select few of my friends would be viewing), chromeless, closes original page, using IE6.

Scenario:
Visitor types adress of my site into their browser, opens first page, an automatic pop-up opens to fullscreen, chromless, closes original page.

Is this possible?
Any help would, again, be VERY appreciated!

-Impolex

[tedster]

Sorry, closing the original window is not allowed for security reasons. Javascript can only automatically close windows that it has opened.

Now that's not completely true. You can close the original window - but the brower will automatically ask the user for permission in an alert box. So the process will not be seamless, which sounds like what you were hoping for.

However, the rest of it is very doable (you've probably already found the code for it) - and your new window would be on top and fill the screen. So, why worry about closing the original window?

[Impolex]

Yep, looks like I will just have a pop-up open fullscreen, chromeless and have the original page underneath it. No biggie and close enough for me.

Thank you for the help! I'm really liking this forum, much faster resonses then other forums I frequent. Looks like I will be sticking around on this one!

-Impolex