prevent website from resizing IE8 window

[Ralph]

I use IE v8.0.6001 in WIN XP Home. I'm up-to-date with patches & updates.

A website I use regularly always resizes my browser window. I want to
prevent all sites from resizing my browser windows. In Firefox I can do that
easily, but this website was designed for IE and does not work properly in
Firefox. How can I prevent websites from resizing an IE8 window?

Thank you

 

[Unknown]

When in IE click view, then zoom and select size you want.

 

[Ralph]

The problem is the IE window size, not the zoom level. I set my browser
window to fill part of my desktop. The window remains that size for all my
browsing until I go to this "problem" site that resizes the window to nearly
fill my desktop.

In Firefox it's an easy fix - Tool/Options, then Advanced Javascript
Settings, then uncheck "move or resize existing windows". In IE8, I can't
find any such option.

 

[Unknown]

Sorry misunderstood your post. Can you reveal the 'problem site'?

 

[Bernd]

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I use IE v8.0.6001 in WIN XP Home. I'm up-to-date with patches & updates.

A website I use regularly always resizes my browser window. I want to
prevent all sites from resizing my browser windows. In Firefox I can do that
easily, but this website was designed for IE and does not work properly in
Firefox. How can I prevent websites from resizing an IE8 window?

Thank you

I think it's not possible in IE.

A way to do it just from IE w/o any extra software would be to save a
bookmarklet that sets you window back to the size you want it, e.g.,

javascript:window.resizeTo(800,600);

But of course you have to run this every time your window is resized.

Bernd

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

What website?

Are you running WinXP SP2 or SP3?

Those with IE7- and/or IE8-specific questions or comments can post to and
seek support in IE General newsgroup:
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[Ralph]

The problem site is

http://www.scheduler.ca/gamescheduler/

 

[Twayne]

I use IE v8.0.6001 in WIN XP Home. I'm up-to-date with patches &
updates.

A website I use regularly always resizes my browser window. I want to
prevent all sites from resizing my browser windows. In Firefox I can
do that easily, but this website was designed for IE and does not
work properly in Firefox. How can I prevent websites from resizing
an IE8 window?

Thank you

Well, that's rude and irritating, isn't it? The reason is that the
whole page is designed using % sizing instead of pixels or anything
else. Normally that would be fine, but he's also %ing the entire window
size, which isn't playing nice. It's none of his business what size you
wish to view that site at.
AFAIK there is no way to combat that. I thought, around the place
where you can tell it to use YOUR colors and not what the site called,
you could also set something about the size, but ... nothing is jumping
out at me.
It does seem to be only the Home Page that happens on, though. If I
resize that page then it stays put for any of the links I use
unless/until I come back to it.

Make a suggestion to the webmaster; perhaps it's just an oversight on
the author's part and could be remedied. Or, instead of using the Home
Page to land on, bookmark instead one of the other pages and make that
your initial landing page, ignoring the Home Page.

Personally I find his flashing graphics annoying enough to drive me away
from the site. It looks like a lot of newbie work on the site, so it
might be worth mnetioning the shortcoming you perceive to them. Can't
hurt to try anyway.

HTH,

Twayne`