Borders around WebViewer

[ectivate]

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

[stefanshotton]

Nope, looks like another filemaker bug for windows.

[Ted S]

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.

[bdam]

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

[thorpemeister]

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!

[Stuart Taylor]

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.

[mr_vodka]

On XP Pro version 2002.

[Stuart Taylor]

Phew!!! ... thanks john.

From the earlier image i though it was about 8 pixels wide.

I will be able to take this into consideration now.

Great