- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:21:33 +0100
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:04:09 +0100, ddailey <ddailey at zoominternet.net> wrote: > I was revisiting some old scripts I had written for determining the size > of the browser window (or things inside it) -- using clientWidth for IE > and innerWidth for Netscape / other. Like many scripts written for the > good old days, measuring seems to have changed as well. > > Mark Wilton-Jones provides this rather frightening analysis > http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/browserwindow of the > behavior of Opera, IE, and FF (various versions of each) in and out of > quirks mode. A quick text scan of the "editor's draft" of HTML5 at > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ reveals no mention of either > clientWidth or innerWidth, so I'm wondering where this might be handled > if not in HTML itself? > > Apologies if this has been discussed ad nauseum before; I may have been > napping. The CSS WG is working on this: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/ Discussion "should" take place on www-style at w3.org. The draft will be published as a W3C First Public Working Draft soonish, though this may be after new year given the holidays and such. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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