howto? (change ie to "F11" mode - the compact style - in html?)

[noenemy sithlord]

when i press F11 and change into compact-style of ie
the adress-bar hides and also menu hides...

i like that very much because theres more place for images... when u move the mouse ontop it shows up again... (if i select that with a right-click)

now i'd like my homepage to open that way when a visitor enters my url but i dont know if that is possible... / which code do i need to type into my index.html?

thank u for every tip! / links?!

[steelegbr]

I don't know the exact code for your problem but the only way I personally can think of is to open a new window with javascript adding the toolbar which opens it in a compact style mode (as far as I remember as I have not used popups in ages). In other browsers the result would be like opening a new complete window. I cannot think of a way to do it to an already opened box.

[encyclo]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, noenemy sithlord!

The answer is no, you can't force full-screen mode. What's more it is not a good idea to force a change of window size or dimensions - for example, people using larger screens don't usually run their browser maximised, and they may have other windows open at the same time. Resizing of windows can be seen as agressive and "hijacking" the users screen, and you'd get a large number of people simply clicking the back button and never returning to your site - which is not what you want!

Best to let the user decide his window size and adjust your site accordingly, for example with a fluid layout.

[MatthewHSE]

First time I used IE's full-screen mode was by accident. I couldn't figure out what had happened, didn't like it, and spent forever trying to "fix" whatever had happened. (And yes, this was in the very beginning of my Internet days!)

Point is, if you automatically force full-screen on your users, you're going to find that many of them will become irritated and annoyed by it.

[noenemy sithlord]

@all repliers: thanks for your fast replies! and you're right! i didnt realize it only works when maximized... not to 'force' it would be better... so my solution to that would be a nice flash in the beginning which could do severeal things for me:
-let visitors select their language (links to specific pages)
-i would allow to skip the flash-file leading to standard index.html
-most important: could give em the choice between normal and 'fullscreen/compact-mode
(like a lot of pages give the opportunity to select between flash and non-flash version of the page)
so i think there are good ways not to make that aggressive...

@encyclo: you're not right, that must be working someway. while searching for specific cd-covers at cdcovers.cc a link brought me to the outsourced files (on several spanish sites) this sites had (like i want) no menu,no address-bar,no symbol-bar, but: (unlike i want it) thay didnt even have the normal window-design (so no X to leave the window) and the bars didnt show up when pointing cursor to the top furthermore they had endless popups so that was terrible...
but i know leaving out UI-parts should be possible i saw it! (sorry have no url to show here)

@matthewHSE: *lol* same as me, accidential knowledge :)
but i think i got known to it with earlier win-versions (98) and the old ie4 or ie5, where i was asked to fix that and couldnt help...
but as in the meantime windows has become beautiful and ie6-compact-mode is much nicer than older ones...

so i've already looking in selfhtml for browser-specific tags but didnt find anything...

other ideas? thx all