I don't know the history, but notice that the canvas is _looking_ for those params. It's not that query params override an application var or setting (which could be a security issue). The developer of the canvas specifically asks for these params.

The history of canvas size is long and tortured, and there are a lot of crazy paths in the compiler to handle absolute vs. percentage sizing. I am a big proponent for letting the size be dynamic, taken from the browser or query args, rather than having to recompile your app to resize it.

On 2009-07-19, at 11:21EDT, Max Carlson wrote:

Perhaps we want a different behavior when fullscreen is on. It should act much more like the default of 100% by 100%. Maybe the part of canvas.construct() that registers for screen size notifications should be refactored to a separate method so it can be called when fullscreen is turned on...

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From: Raju Bitter <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:47 AM
To: Raju Bitter <[email protected]>
Cc: Laszlo-dev bug reporting <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Laszlo-dev] Query args width and height processed by LaszloCanvas.lzs#construct()

And if you don't want to read the forum post: he attached a width and
height parameter to the SWF for whatever reason (customer
requirement), and never expected that to influence the behavior full
screen.

So my question actually is:
1) is it a documented behavior, that you can override width and height
with query vars
2) if it's a documented behavior or a "feature", I need to mention in
the fullscreen documentation what effect it will have

On Jul 19, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Raju Bitter wrote:

That means: if you have the app running at 600x600 without full
screen, and you go into full screen on a 1440x900 screen, the canvas
will remain at 600x600 in the upper left corner of the screen.

Of course you can easily avoid that by NOT passing any value through
query vars into the Laszlo app, but if you look into the forum post
that caused this discussion you'll see that a user got confused by
that behavior.

I was just investigating what's going on to help this guy.

On Jul 19, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Sarah Allen wrote:

um... so what is the conflict?

On Jul 19, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:

Actually it happens on canvas construction, in the construct()
method. Which means, it overrides the values in your <canvas />
declaration within LZX. As a result canvas will - even in full
screen mode - still report the static width & height passed into
the app.

On Jul 19, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Sarah Allen wrote:

It does seem like a useful feature in case you want to use a swf
embedded in something that is not a browser (although I suppose
you could always write it yourself in code, so maybe it is not
worth maintaining)

Just curious... why does it interfere with full screen mode?  I
would think that would happen long after canvas construct...

On Jul 18, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Raju Bitter wrote:

A user in the forums ran into a problem with f

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