vomitous fullscreen
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- Danski
Anyone else totally and utterly sick of lib-taking fullscreen webpages? I was using that screen space! You don't need 1600 pixels to show me your photography folio!
Anyhow, I just find it really annoying. Anyone else sympathise?
- dequinix0
Argh. I'm absolutely sick of this shit. I'm at the point where I generally close sites that go fullscreen on me.
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- jking760
so, we're talking fullscreen without toolbars etc. right? cause sometimes i use window resize to fill screen, is that so bad?
- dequinix0
I meant when your primary screen is resized. If you open up a new window and fullsize it, it's fine with me because it doesn't meddle with my window size settings. But resizing people's windows is kind of like invasion of privacy. =/
- Gibui0
Alt+F4 all the way!
- quamb0
yep, damn annoying, i just close em down.
on a pc it screws with my max window size settings, on mac its really annoying to get to the title bar to close the sucker.
- ribit0
we need a script or something that whenever someone makes your browser go full screen, the script shuts down their server, and moves all of their computers one foot to the right, and hides all of their pens...
- kodap0
i dont mind fullscreen windows with title bar, but this is what pisses me off:
- no option for normal window
- auto launch without previous warning
- no exit button
- dequinix0
I believe this is the perfect time to start a Anti-Fullscreen Coalition.
Word.
- gabe0
here's my opinion on this...
some of these sites that appear fullscreen automatically aren't poorly designed or didn't take the viewer into account, in fact, they actually did.
the sites weren't designed for other designers to google and gawk at during our lunch break; they're designed to give the company's target audience an experience. when one of those people sit down in front of the computer, they're more than likely ready to EXPLORE that site and be totally immersed in it, not swapping back and forth between photoshop, outlook, and five other IE windows.
anyway, i'm never so incredibly busy that i can't take two min. out of my time to check out a site that just so happens to be fullscreen. if your time is truly THAT valauble then you would not be wasting your time here.
- CX0
Me too. I only think its OK if theres an option generally.
- mrdobolina0
Im actually getting really tired of people's sites coming up ina popup window for any reason.
- paulrand0
all right all right, you've convinced me. jesus
- mitsu0
ya know, i don't even think we should have web sites open in browsers at all.
hell, i think we should print our sites on paper and mail them to everyone.
- dequinix0
Gabe, no doubt about the user experience. I could see your point on that, but at the same time, when designers put up a site on the web, it is for general consumption. Aside from certain sites which are meant to be seen fullscreen, it's not necessary.
But let's not argue about the validity of actually fullscreening or not, because that's a completely subjective issue. The simplest solution (and I thank every designer that does this) is to do a fullscreen pop-up window.
- Kael0
I have been guilty of fullscreens in the past, but now I ask myself and other people...
What is wrong with the FIRST window for your site?
Why do you need ANOTHER window to do the job?Again, it's a subjective thing, I know. Many times it's to control the viewing 'world' you're in - like "I want the viewer in a 750 x 400 pixel world where they can't f- up anything.
Point taken, but I still say less is more. Do it in ONE WINDOW.
- mitsu0
operation enduring anti chromeless windows in the hizzouse!
- gabe0
like anything, there's a time to do it and a time not to.
some designer's sites are in a fullscreen windows. sometimes it's appropriate, sometimes it isn't. if i'm sending out my URL to potential employers and it's a portfolio of my work, i'd like the security of knowing they aren't being distracted by anything else and that my work has their full attention. the same applies if you're a business owner; you want your customers to be fully immersed in your virtual store, not getting lost in windows upon windows of other sites they are searching.
- mitsu0
well, i agree, it all depends on your target audience, but i will state the obvious and say that if do go FS, then an easy to see close button would be rather helpful to the end user. apart from that, my only comment would be that i've always liked it when a site gives me the option to go FS or windowed from the startup screen.
yet, i do believe there are some circumstances when an FS site is helpfull. let's say you're building an internal web app for your company and you want to have as much control as possible throughout the users session... well, in that case, the ability to go FS is a pure blessing for the devloper!
- drqshadow0
I close em without a second thought. Same way I treat sites that use blaring music, whether it's shitty MIDI or catchy techno. People should have to earn a license, proving they know how to use such devices properly, before they're allowed to implement the code.
- monokrom0
Chromeless full-screen windows are soooo 1999. They only work in one browser and on one platform (MSIE for WIndows) and won't even be possible in future versions of that browser-platform combo anyway.
I agree with what Kael wrote - about using the window that's available before popping up new ones.
I use Mozilla and have disallowed browser window-popping, moving, or resizing, so it's not a problem for me - but when I'm over at a friend's and MSIE is all that's available, the amount of crap that I have to put up with from crap sites in terms of fiddling with my browser window is just ridiculous.
"we need a script or something that whenever someone makes your browser go full screen, the script shuts down their server, and moves all of their computers one foot to the right, and hides all of their pens..."
Ribit - thank you for this. You brought a smile to my face.