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Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener

Date 2014-06-25 07:35 +1000
From Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Detect Browser full screen Or window.opener
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On 24/06/2014 8:48 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps I should've said the browser app always displays at full screen.

>> 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.

I cannot install an app on individual devices and the elearning lesson 
will be in the cloud so besides standalone apps, how else could a web 
application be presented on mobile devices if not in a browser?

Andrew Poulos

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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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