Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Specifying the zoom % in IE Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:27:20 +1100 Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: <50a274ea$0$18063$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <50a2de8d$0$18081$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net qGIo5pEXd5h+Aa38vHhofw5MaLqqT0xRpKk+LLGxBGXczPuwJgB6fGxdEB2fNGbDQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:wXp7MgmnnOAQZr3mjtktM/h4Njo= In-Reply-To: <50a2de8d$0$18081$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:17217 SAM wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> SAM wrote >>> Rod Speed wrote >>>> I use this script to open a set of windows I use more than daily. >>>> var navOpenInBackgroundTab = 0x1000; >>>> var oIE = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application"); >>>> oIE.Navigate2("http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/griffith.shtml"); >>> What code is in the shtml file ? >> Dunno, haven't even looked. > You only can have a look if that page is your's > A shtml file has server side code (SSI) for at least a part of it. > Maybe it is possible there to choice the size of the image ? I doubt it because they would provide some way to change that if there was. >> I run most pages at 200% just because I show them on 24" screens > I use a 27" I don't like the price of those for such a small increase in screen real estate, I prefer to have multiple 24" screens instead and end up with a lot more screen area for the same price. > at 50cm from my eyes I don't like using screens like that. MUCH too far for the eyes to move IMO. > and no zoom needed ;-) Don't agree with that either with the 4 screens with just a pic on them that I prefer to fill the screen and so need to zoom those. >> and that gives the most readable text size, >> particularly with pages like wikipedia > That is not an image as seem above Sure, but that's why I have the default zoom as 200% on the other screens that make up a hell of a lot more than the 6 screens that are loaded by that particular script. I have a vastly more other screens that I also have open all the time. Those other ones don't need anything other than the 200% >> that wrap properly so that you don't need to scroll horizontally at all. > ??? > I hate long lines Likely because you have the screen so close to your face. > ==> never I have a window in full screen. I only have a few that arent. > (except with my drawing application) >>> I like the presentation of "Griffith 7-day Weather Forecast" >> Sure, but it doesn't show the prediction of the rain in the 5% of < 1mm > I don't live in Oz's desert, so ... Its got nothing to do with a desert, almost everywhere does have the chance of rain vary from day to day. I wouldn't live in a place that doesn't personally. >> and 90% of 20-40 mm format. > 20/40mm a day ? Yep. > per hour ? Sometimes. We just had 100mm in about 10 hours, but that's unusual. >>> Hop! >> Yeah, that's where I got the script from, > Ha ? Too bad :-/ > Not tested, stg like : > newTab = > oIE.Navigate2("http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/griffith.shtml"); > newTab.onload = function() { newTab.document.body.style.width = '200%';} Fraid not.