On a 800x600 resolution screen, what is the available space in internet explorer and firefox. i want to make a flash website that will fill up the whole area, as i will place it on a layer. I want it to have no edges either or margins.
2007-03-10 01:58:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
I just want to know how big i will have to make the flash canvas so that when viewed on a 800x600 screen, it will fill up to the edges of the webpage sapce in internet explorer.
2007-03-10 02:17:02 · update #1
We did a little study on this a while back. I had a bunch of people send me screencaps, then I analyzed them for the amount of space they had. Link is here:
http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/5050
You could always make the background of your Flash movie the same color as the background of the browser window so you can't tell where one ends and the other begins.
2007-03-10 09:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Deane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
760x420 would be your reference for an 800x600 screen resolution. You can adjust the values from there. This also depends on the size of the browser window i.e. if it has borders, titlebar, toolbars, address bar, statusbar. You can even go full screen 800x600 with all elements of the window hidden(bad practice though). Some ppl even have extra google bars or yahoo bars and stuff so you really can't tell how much height-space you have for content.
The best thing to do is have your flash/swf fill/stretch with the window. Another would be to center it on screen and make the flash blend with the background. You can also make the page background the same background of your flash by making the flash transparent/windowless.
2007-03-10 10:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by solitaryfalcon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no single answer because it depends on the amount of "chrome" that each user's browser is displaying. For example, I'm using FF now with a row of tabs, plus two extra toolbars, a links bar, the regular toolbar, and the menu at the top, plus the status bar at the bottom. When I go to 800 x 600, my available space is around 772 x 376. If I were to hide some of the toolbars, or if I didn't have the tabs enabled, the vertical dimension would increase dramatically. Note also that some of these chrome elements vary in size in different themes.
So for ordinary surfing, where you have no control over the user's chrome at all, you can't predict the available size. If you're going to create a new window using JavaScript window.open then you do have lots of control over the chrome. You can eliminate most of it. But most users don't expect or want web sites to suddenly launch themselves in new windows, and pop-up blockers will not allow it, so that's not a very viable game-plan either.
Sorry for the bad news.
2007-03-10 10:47:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there is no limit to the amount of pixels on internet browsers. Wait, I take that back, there probably is a maxmimum but we are talking like 3000x3000 or something like that.
Everyone will have different resolutions, I have 1280x1024 on my 19" in my office, 1600x1200 on my 21" and 1440x768 on my laptop.
Not to mention the fact that anything larger than 800X600 in flash will take a lot of processing power.
There is a way to get your website to stretch for different resolutions, but your flash items will not stretch.
2007-03-10 10:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that with Firefox it is possible to completely eliminate everything around the display area. (F11 maybe?)
2007-03-10 10:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋