Can I make a website full screen without flash or silverlight? - asp.net

I'm working on something that needs a webpage to go full screen. The screen must become completely white.
Is there anyway that I can do this without flash or silverlight?
Thanks in advance
edit: Im not trying to force anybody into fullscreen, this will be mainly used by a couple of people. Even so I'll give proper feedback on how to get in and out of fullscreen .

You cant do full screen, because of security reasons the title bar is still there and so on in different browsers.
But a way could be to make the window larger than the screen, lets say 100 pixels wider and 100 pixels higher and position the window at -50, -50. I havent tried that but if there is no restrains against window size being bigger than screen size it could be a solution.

With JavaScript:
window.open ("http://stackoverflow.com", "","fullscreen=yes");
The size of the window varies between browsers, but actually in IE, you will have the desired behavior...

Please dont resize the user's web browser. I use the rest of my screen for other things, and I think many users do too. A respectful website stays where the browser puts it.

"Something like ajax for example?"...
Ajax != Javascript.
Your responsibility as a web site operator is to have some manners and allow the user to control the size.
You could read the screen.width and screen.height and if they are far off the document.body.clientHeight or document.body.clientWidth, alert the user that the page should be viewed in fullscreen mode and how to make it fullscreen (F12 for IE - i think, F11 for FF).

No, you can't control the browser in that way with javascript.

You can instruct your users to use firefox 3, and press F11 to enter full screen mode. the title bar will go away if the mouse isn't near the top of the screen.
Yes, it requires user interaction, but if they want to go into full screen then it's easy for them to do so under their own power, and to leave again when they want to.
-Adam

Well, I see that you are trying to simply have a button that will make the page full-screen; similar to the youtube full screen mode.
As well, I do NOT suggest using the "just hit F11" method, as people on Safari, or Mac in general, will be excluded.
You can use C#, which can be done by downloading Visual Studio or MS Visulal C#, or even CosmosBoot. There is plenty of code for full screen applications in C#. Another good thing about full screen in C# is that it can be easily embedded into a webpage, through some simplye ASP code.
You can use java, which can be painfully slow, and require a lot of coding, but it is attainable. You can use one of several hundred IDEs or JDKs, but I don't really use java, so I can't give you much in the way of advice on programming it, but it is EVEN EASIER to embed than C#, all you need is the tag.

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How do I make a mobile-friendly popup on my website?

Is there a simple way to trigger a mobile OS's native pop-up/alert/etc. from some form of web code? I'm writing an ASP.NET mobile web page and I'd like to, for example, have the iPhone's UIAlertView appear.
EDIT: What I'm looking for is not the method with which to detect which mobile browser is accessing the site (I already know how to do that). If the code to trigger a pop-up that will look nice in an Android browser is different than the code to trigger a pop-up that will look nice in an iPhone browser, I can simply throw in a switch statement that redirects the user to the pop-up that corresponds with their browser. I'm trying to find the html/javascript/asp.net code which will create a mobile-friendly pop-up, either in general or for the various popular mobile web browsers specifically.
Don't know whether there is any pre-built functionality in .NET that can achieve this, but you can surely write one yourself.
You can write a method, that returns the code for your popup, based on the user OS (simple switch statement should do).
EDIT after taking a short nap:
I believe you should reconsider using popups. They are quite annoying even on desktop browsers and many people block them automatically. Probably every blog about accessibility will tell you, that you should keep mobile version of your website as simple as possible because of various compatibility issues that you can run into.
Instead, try to think about some interesting way to incorporate messages for users in a different and appealing way, that won't disturb anybody.
What I do is use a div popup (that floats ontop of the page) and eighter make a big close button or set at timeout to remove it.
jquery mobile is a good place to start.

How to develop website/application to view in tablet pc?

I am developing website and it has to be viewed in tablet pc. Please suggest me what are things to be considered ? technology wise ?
also i need to know what are the tools i need to have to view in my intranet as well as.
A major issue: in many tablets there is no moving pointer - at least not in a fully usable form. That means that tooltips may not really work, and image maps must be really clear, since there is no highlighting until the user actually "clicks" on the link.
Well, actually that's not fully accurate - if the user drags the pointer, it should work like a regular mouse pointer. The problem is that most users avoid dragging and just tap where they want to click directly.
Best piece of advice I can offer: get an actual tablet PC and try browsing your site. Most major issues will be evident almost immediately. If you are able, get a regular tablet/pad user to beta-test your site without trying it out on a desktop PC - they would be able to see issues that you would miss due to your prior knowledge of the site.
The Tablet PC is a standard Windows machine, therefore it has the same browser support as any other Windows box. So there isn't any special technology required.
There are however some design considerations:
First, make sure your layout has plenty of empty space surrounding iterative elements. Crammed pages are tough to navigate with a stylus, and if it is one of the newer models that also support touch it is even more of an issue.
Second, most Tablet PCs are configured with the default font size set for 125%. You want to make sure that your web pages scale correctly and don't end up requiring horizontal scrolling to see the full width of the page.
A second point regarding scaling, Tablet PC supports both Landscape and Portrait modes. In other words, it can be 1024x768 OR 768x1024. You'll want to make sure that your user experience is acceptable in both modes.
One thing i can think of : there is no 'hover' on most tablets, and if it's there at all, likely nobody will see it.
Not all tablets support flash, but they do all support javascript, and Prototype.JS or jQuery will run on them in most cases

Adobe Air Browser

Im trying to implement a mini browser in adobe air. The browser should work in the same ways as a mobile phone browser, i.e. fit the width of the website to a certain width(specified within the html component) and leave the height to be scrollable.
I have managed to do a mini browser by using the scaleX,scaleY properties of the mx:HTML component however these make the websites look unreadable.
I have also tried setting the css3 zoom property, and that works fine, but it only zooms out certain elements, therefore messing up the site layout.
My question is: Is there a way to make a mini web browser which shows the full content of the website?
Thanks for your help
Air browser cannot be scaled without have an horrible look (no anti-aliasing).
A few years later but here is what I ended up doing:
The requirement was to show the full website that person B was looking at so that person A could guide them through the site. Due to all the limitations of the Adobe AIR Browser we ended up using IECapt (http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/) within an external process to capture the screenshot and send it back to AIR.
This is all well and good, but IECapt is quite out of date as well so recently we have started to look at the using Chromium (http://www.magpcss.net/cef_downloads/) as an ANE within our application and with that we can alter the zoom and dimensions of the page while still being able to keep it up-to-date.

Disable print, print screen, right click using asp.net

How to Disable print, print screen, right click using asp.net
You cant. You cannot avoid content being copied from your pages.
Disabling Right Click is possible, but it doesnt solve your 'problem'. The user could still copy your image, by disabling javascript or just inspecting the source.
And even if you could disable those keys, the user could still just make a photo of his monitor. Good luck disabling that!
Short answer: You don't. You are writing a web application; features of the underlying platform are outside your scope, and you have no business trying to fiddle with them.
Long answer: You can try to capture those keys using javascript, and override the default behaviour, which will somewhat stop very naïve users, but all it takes to disable this "security" is to turn off javascript. Even if you come up with more sophisticated "protection", the essence remains: You are sending content to the client, and once it gets there, it is out of your hands. Given suitable tools (wget is enough for most things), anyone can copy and modify your content in any way they like. Similarly, whatever can be shown on the screen inside a browser can be captured and saved. There is no way around it. If you don't want your content copied, don't send it.
Forget about it. You will irritate your end users who will find a way to con you and do what you didn't want them to do. Forbidden fruit is always the sweetest. By telling them explicitly "you cannot do this", they will wonder why do you want to guard your content and they might try even harder to do stuff you otherwise wouldn't want them to do.
Psychology and technology are against you in this case.
Printing
You could disable printing (well sort of - it's not 100% effective) using a "print" style sheet.
I have not tried it myself, but here is a link that could get you started: http://webdesign.about.com/od/advancedcss/qt/block_print.htm
Print screen
Print screen is something that is typically controlled by the operating system not the browser nor webpage. So you are unlikely to be able to stop this. However, casting my mind back I remember a time (perhaps a long long time ago), where you couldn't take screen shots in Windows (maybe Windows 98) of videos... so if your really in need of disabling print screen - perhaps you could perhaps encode your content in a video... but this will have many many downfalls - namely accessibility, search engine optimisation and it being a royal pain to do... so I wouldn't recommend it under any circumstance.
Right screen
Right click you can disable, but not using a server-side technology (such as ASP.net) instead in a client-side technology such as javascript. A quick search in your favourite search engine will find some help. But disabling right click is rudimentary to get around, so it is not full proof.
An alternative to protect your content is to possibly investigate "rights" in PDFs. I believe you can disable the "right" to print.
However none of these solutions are going to be full-proof. As long as you are making your content available to an end-user on their own computer, there is always going to be a way around your restrictions.
I have implemented for disabling printing using window.onbeforeprint()
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Hide Navigation Bar in flex

I'm newer in Flex and I would like to disable the Navigation Bar and the bookmarks tab cause I need to show a lot of information so I really need to have as much space as it's possible. I do not know what I can do.
Thanks in advance,
Alicia
Do you mean the navigation and bookmarks in the browser?
Depending on the content of your application, you could potentially use full screen mode, but that has some restrictions around keyboard input (only some keys are allowed such as arrow keys, enter key etc)
Otherwise you may just need to prompt the user to turn their browser to full-screen so that they can see as much of the app as possible.
Browser full-screen/maximise is different from Flash full-screen as all keyboard input is still possible.
As far as I know there wouldn't be a way to actually modify the appearance of the browser from within a Flash application.

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