The Chromeless Window

window.open took a shopping list of chrome to remove, up to and including the entire screen.

In 2026: Partly. The window still opens on a click, but almost the whole feature string is now ignored: the address bar is permanently welded on so a page cannot impersonate your bank, fullscreen=yes does nothing, and channelmode has been meaningless since IE4's channel bar died. You get a plain small window and you will like it.

Where it came from: Netscape and Microsoft window.open feature strings, 1996 onward. fullscreen= arrived with Internet Explorer 5. MDN ↗

<script language="JavaScript">
function kiosk() {
  // Strip the toolbar, menus, address bar, status bar, scrollbars,
  // or just take the whole screen with no chrome at all.
  window.open("art.html", "kiosk",
      "fullscreen=yes,channelmode=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no," +
      "location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no");
}
</script>

<button onclick="kiosk()">Enter my site (best experienced fullscreen)</button>