Borders around WebViewer

August 17, 200619 yr

Hi,

has anyone any idea how to get rid of the ugly borders around the webviewer on Windows?

All I found out is that it has nothing to do with the border-settings in FileMaker.

On Mac the webviewer integrates seamlessly into filemaker - which looks really cool.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Horst

August 23, 200619 yr

Nope, looks like another filemaker bug for windows.

August 23, 200619 yr

I think the problem is more with Microsoft (IE specifically) than Filemaker. The folks at Filemaker didn't invent a web browser and embed it in Filemaker. Instead they call the user's default browser (IE usually) and integrate it with Filemaker to appear seamless. I don't think that our friends at MS provided any way to control IE's borders.

Using this reasoning I guess that FMI could be blamed for using this approach in general rather and building their own browser or including a browser from another software vendor.

1 month later...

September 26, 200619 yr

I'm not sure that the (default) browser is to blame. First of all, none of the browsers put a border around their webpages so why would they be responsible for the border in FileMaker? Secondly, I took the time to take some screenshots with IE, FireFox, and Opera set as my default browsers. As you can see the borders are exactly the same.

webviewer_border.bmp

3 months later...

January 8, 200719 yr

Newbies

It's not much help if you are viewing external websites, but if you are using the viewer to display your own locally saved web pages, there is a workaround. As well as setting the viewer border to none, add soem CSS to your html, as follows -

That will get rid of the border. Not sure why this is ncessary, but it does work!

January 8, 200719 yr

Can someone post an image of say google in the webviewer with such a border on windows...

Is this true of 2000, xp & vista?

I was not aware of this and although on osx build xplatform.

FYI:

I believe that filemaker under windows uses IE and under OSX uses the safari framework. I was under the impression the default browser was ignored. Please correct me if im wrong.