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[emergency_pants]

Afternoon all,

Just a quick rant post here. I've had a bit of time on my hands today and I've been browsing some flash sites. There's lots of very cool stuff out there still... nice to see so much new stuff being done with flash. I have just one criticism.

INDEX PAGES WHICH FORCE YOUR BROWSER TO FULL SCREEN

STOP IT!!!

Please, please, please stop making index pages which a) Force the browser window to full screen or, b)open without a browser frame and go to full screen. It's more offensive that transparent overlay ads. And I get pissed off with having to resize my browser window back to the size I want it. LOTS of people use dual screen setups and forcing to full screen WILL ALWAYS WITHOUT FAIL chop your webpage in half! How would you like it if everytime you opened up a word processor to write a letter, it set your page size to A5 and set the typeface to Comic Sans? huh? Use a different word processor? Yeah... just like I close your site and browse somewhere else.

DON'T DO IT!

(grrrrrrrrrr)






(thank you)

[tg]

i feel for you brotha...

everytime i go to a site that makes my browser change its current configuration, without telling me, or warning me, or giving me an option, thats the last time i go to that site.

the only site i visit where i allow popups, is this one... for pms (no don't pm me, unless you have work for me).

[bluegel]

that annoys me too, especially as sometimes when i am at work it does it, and im not supposed to be on the internet

[mindfriction]

lol yeah I fell ya.

It's funny you say that because today my client wants to change the fixed-layout design of her site to a fullscreen popup...I mean hey I thought the fixed-layout 800x600 design was fine, but lil'miss 'I have a widescreen LCD' wants her site to be "big and bold" and resize...Grrr

And now I have to implement some nasty javascript, not to mention use completely invalid xhtml just to make it 'look nice' ..The things we do for money

[tg]

lol yeah I fell ya.

It's funny you say that because today my client wants to change the fixed-layout design of her site to a fullscreen popup...I mean hey I thought the fixed-layout 800x600 design was fine, but lil'miss 'I have a widescreen LCD' wants her site to be "big and bold" and resize...Grrr

And now I have to implement some nasty javascript, not to mention use completely invalid xhtml just to make it 'look nice' ..The things we do for money


...hmmmm... you know, prostitution is illegal in most of the states over here.

[farafiro]

just get the OPERA browser and you won't have this problem anymore

[mindfriction]

...hmmmm... you know, prostitution is illegal in most of the states over here.

@tg LOL. Tg..Honey, if your ever over on Aus come visit me in St Kilda I can be found on most street corner's ;) hehe

@fairfo This concept of paying for Opera, which really isn't dramatically different from any other browser amuses me. Didn't Firefox win overall "best browser" in some awards recently(?)

On and in other news...
I'm starting to believe the only way to develop "desirable" sites is to use the popular browser's-no matter how bad they are- and experience what the typical end user experiences (pop-ups, bad rendering) and in turn use this to improve my own sites... :D

[farafiro]

Hi mindfriction
if u can live with the upper ad banner then u may not pay or buy it
I also have Firefox but I like (or just got VERY used to it) Opera more