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Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener (was: Detect Browser full screen Or window.open)

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener (was: Detect Browser full screen Or window.open)
Date Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:48:18 +0200
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> It seems that [window.opener] [yields] undefined (at least with Chrome on
> iOS) so I can't get an elearning lesson to send data to the opener page
> that communicates with the learning management system (LMS).
> 
> Given that iOS currently displays all web pages full screen,

It does not.

> My problem now is, how can I reliably tell either if [window.opener] will
> not "work" or if the browser is always full screen?

You cannot.  Especially on mobile devices, you need to abandon the idea that 
windows/frames would be viable/the only ways of the presentation of related 
content in a Web application.

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Detect Browser full screen Or window.open Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-24 13:16 +1000
  Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.open "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-24 10:26 +0200
    Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.open Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-24 18:48 +1000
      Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.open "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-24 11:05 +0200
  Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener (was: Detect Browser full screen Or window.open) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-24 12:48 +0200
    Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-25 07:35 +1000
      Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-24 23:45 +0200
        Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-25 08:44 +1000
          Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-06-24 18:06 -0500
          Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-25 08:02 +0200

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