Safari width=100%

Submitted by Mintsauce on Sun, 2008-01-20 08:52.

Mac OS X

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I love Safari. It's fast, clean and pretty. The only thing that's bothered me right from the beginning is Safari's inability to fill the whole screen when clicking on the Zoom button. I understand how the Zoom works, and quite like the idea, except that, well, sometimes I like filling my screen with my application window; without losing the Dock - ie. MegaZoom.

So yesterday I discover a java bookmarklet that does just that. Safari-Stretch. Pull the bookmarklet onto your bookmarkbar, click and voila - Safari stretches to full screen, regardless of where your Dock is parked. Cute, nice and nifty.

Click it again and the viewport pops to 800px wide. In other words, if you are running Safari Stand with sidebar it will resize to 800px + sidebar. If the sidebar is off it will resize to 800px only. And yes, you can change the resize to 1024 (or "anything" else) if you want...

Open "Show all bookmarks" and edit the bookmarklet address.
This: ... window.resizeTo(800+window.outerWidth ... should change to
this: ... window.resizeTo(1024+window.outerWidth ...

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It's interesting how this annoys some people.

Submitted by plugz on Sun, 2008-01-20 16:56.

I actually find it more useful that Safari doesn't expand over my entire desktop.
I find myself wishing for the feature in Windows.

Screen re-sizing

Submitted by mmmmark on Sun, 2008-01-20 17:19.

There are much simpler java bookmarklets that will do this (and better) IMHO.

For example: java script:self.moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(1300,1100)

1300 and 1100 just happen to be the sizes that I wanted my screen to be. You can put in whatever coordinates you want, but this simple bookmarklet always puts the window in the upper left corner and makes it as big as you specify.

You could make another one to fill it to full screen and then toggle between them. That seems more useful than a 800 width one.

YMMV

PS, remove the space after "java" above. The filter was thinking it was malicious code!

I'm with @plugz

Submitted by spigot on Mon, 2008-01-21 14:18.

With a 23" monitor, most sites have huge amounts of real estate on either side of the main content. I like having windows peak out from underneath for quick change.

Nice find for those who disagree though.

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