XP is trying to kill chromeless 2

[PantherRun]

Again hello;
I'm adding flash movies to my website and my web designer has given me a heads up about using the chromeless window with XP - they don't play together.

Warning! The Chromeless Window script currently does NOT work in Windows XP from SP1 (Service Pack 1) and thereon after. The problem is due to a changed behavior in XP that prevents Chromeless Windows all together (security update). We're still observing to see if this behavior will be changed soon, though if not, may have to remove this script altogether. If you wish to use Chromeless Windows, please make sure you understand the above -Oct 28th, 2002.

Has anyone out there found a work around yet for this? Perhpes a chromeless window script that doesn't bother XP? I'd really like to blow out the browser but obviously i can't alienate XP users.
Thanks
Hoss

 

[hermes1]

We switched over our chromeless window (which i also really like chromeless by the way) to boring standard windows. Right now i know of no alternative and i feel chromelss is not an option anymore. Micro$oft really made an issue with this because of some major potential security problems.

I did toss around the idea of using a floating layer i had found at dynamic drive which looked pretty good.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex3/tabdocviewer.htm

 

[ChrisHunt]

A "chromeless" window is a window without a title bar, resize frame, close button, etc. right? If so, the reason it's been disabled is to close up a potential security risk (alluded to by hermes).

An unscrupulous person could have started with a chromeless window, added his own title bar and so on, and made a "trojan" dialog that looked like a windows one - to get hold of stuff like user passwords. That's why the chromeless approach is disabled, though it affects a lot of innocent designers in order to shut out a few toerags.

Now it seems Billionaire Bill can't win. If he disables chromeless, you complain about the constraint on your design; if he enables it, others complain about how insecure Windows is. Personally, I think he's made the right choice.

So, learn to live with it. There are more important things to do when developing a decent web site than worry about what the browser looks like.

-- Chris Hunt

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[pixl8r]

Nicely stated Chris!

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!