Raul, Thank you. I had no idea about using javascript in bookmarks. And, yes, I suppose multiple windows could be made to work.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: >> My understanding of browser interfaces is that such tessellation of >> frames/windows is not possible by the end user, but if it is I would >> like to know how, please. > > You can have multiple browser windows though. And you can size and > arrange them as you please. > > I think the biggest limitation here is the extra real-estate imposed > by the browser itself. However, chrome minimizes that, and also > it is possible to instruct the browser to open a window without > decorations (using javascript's window.open() method -- though if > you are willing to use that you also have some other options > available to you). > > Though, actually, you could make a bookmark and edit. For > example, change it to: > > javascript:window.open(prompt('url'), '_blank', > 'status=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,menubar=0') > > This lets you type in a url and get a window visiting that url with a > relative minimum of decoration real-estate. You could also make > multiple bookmarks, replacing > the "prompt('url')" with whatever url you want (in quotes). Or instead > of having the bookmark always spawn a new window you could change > the second parameter from '_blank' to some unique name for that > bookmark and the bookmark would then bring the named window to > the front if it were already open... > > FYI, > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
