marc
04-17-2006, 05:36 AM
One feature that I've actually wanted from WinIE, for the longest time, is full-screen mode; with broadband we're finally starting to get more immersive web sites, kinda back to the 'interactive CD-ROM' days! :)
Anyway, this is one of the features Saft gives me in Safari, and things were OK for a while with OmniSaft, but it was v4-only. :(
While OG consider whether this is a worthwhile feature, you can get it by installing Ian Henderson's Megazoomer (http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/21275) which inserts itself into the Window menu of your apps, and will quickly hide the menu/dock and zoom the active window to full screen.
It's a SIMBL (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18351) plugin and at v0.3, so if you get a bit antsy about alpha/betas and these sorts of system extenders, I guess it's not for you (they've been harmless in my experience.)
When full-screen, the menu bar auto-shows (like dock auto-show/hide) and your app's toolbar remains (but you can hide that in the normal way for a given app, if you want.) The other nice thing is that window drawers work properly -- with OW go to full screen then hit the Tab Drawer button and the full-sceeen window narrows just enough to show the drawer (and hiding the Drawer it will return the window to full-width.)
It's effective, and works better than Saft in Safari, which reloads the page, whereas megazoomer literally resizes the window in question.
Anyway, this is one of the features Saft gives me in Safari, and things were OK for a while with OmniSaft, but it was v4-only. :(
While OG consider whether this is a worthwhile feature, you can get it by installing Ian Henderson's Megazoomer (http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/21275) which inserts itself into the Window menu of your apps, and will quickly hide the menu/dock and zoom the active window to full screen.
It's a SIMBL (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18351) plugin and at v0.3, so if you get a bit antsy about alpha/betas and these sorts of system extenders, I guess it's not for you (they've been harmless in my experience.)
When full-screen, the menu bar auto-shows (like dock auto-show/hide) and your app's toolbar remains (but you can hide that in the normal way for a given app, if you want.) The other nice thing is that window drawers work properly -- with OW go to full screen then hit the Tab Drawer button and the full-sceeen window narrows just enough to show the drawer (and hiding the Drawer it will return the window to full-width.)
It's effective, and works better than Saft in Safari, which reloads the page, whereas megazoomer literally resizes the window in question.