Is it possible to have a transparent background?

Question

That is, I want the user's desktop (or any open windows) to be displayed through the background (with a bit of opacity). I made a quick mockup in Photoshop to try and illustrate what I was aiming for ( transparent bg ).

I'm fine using a bit of jQuery if necessary, but would prefer to keep the print light on my feet. I really don't want to add a ton of overhead just for a fancy effect.

Answer 1

The term Form Opacity , and you should have access to the source code of applications, in most cases, to manipulate it. Several programs already have this as a standard or hidden function, i.e. Trillian and iCalenderLite, to name a couple ... Windows 7 allows you to do this in any open window.

form.opacity

Answer 2

No. You cannot make the browser window translucent.

Answer 3

This is not possible ... using current APIs. It is theoretically possible that it can be implemented in the future, but at the moment it is best to make transparency for the desired color of the user.

Answer 4

I doubt this is possible because it requires the actual browser window to be transparent, which is almost certainly not the case.

Answer 5

No, It is Immpossible.

99.99% of the time, if you have never seen it before, there is a good reason *.

* EDIT: These comments apply only to web programming ... are not intended to apply to the total amount of human innovation.

Answer 6

Perhaps with some browser plugin, but not with code on your website.

Answer 7

I see that this is impossible. The correct answer is currently basically impossible;) Using programming, you can create a transparent window or application. I have never done anything like this, but I used several programs that let me control transparency.

My best bet for controlling window opacity is DirectX. So, if you have to make a browser with DirectX, you can control the opacity of the window by reading CSS.

So you could do it yourself, just like mozilla firefox reads its own css (-moz-radius), just create your own DirectX based web browser. I could see someone getting a lot of support in a similar project.