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Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Get Real! » Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:00 am

Browser bugs with Javascript screen size constants

Test script follows...

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<body><script>

document.write('NB: These are CASE SENSITIVE constants!'+'<br><br>');

document.write('screen.width : '+screen.width+'<br>');
document.write('screen.height : '+screen.height+'<br><br>');

document.write('screen.availWidth : '+screen.availWidth+'<br>');
document.write('screen.availHeight : '+screen.availHeight+'<br><br>');

document.write('window.innerWidth : '+window.innerWidth+'<br>');
document.write('window.innerHeight : '+window.innerHeight+'<br><br>');

document.write('window.outerWidth : '+window.outerWidth+'<br>');
document.write('window.outerHeight : '+window.outerHeight);

</script></body>
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Test results:

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Under Maxthon3 my screen returned:

screen.width : 1024
screen.height : 768

screen.availWidth : 1024
screen.availHeight : 738

window.innerWidth : 1024
window.innerHeight : 626

window.outerWidth : 1016 <--Smaller than 1024 makes no sense!
window.outerHeight : 730

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Under Firefox 16 my screen returned:

screen.width : 1024
screen.height : 768

screen.availWidth : 1024
screen.availHeight : 738

window.innerWidth : 1024
window.innerHeight : 605

window.outerWidth : 1032 <--Should be 1024
window.outerHeight : 746

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Under Sea Monkey my screen returned:

screen.width : 1024
screen.height : 768

screen.availWidth : 1024
screen.availHeight : 738

window.innerWidth : 1024
window.innerHeight : 591

window.outerWidth : 1032 <--Should be 1024
window.outerHeight : 746

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Under IE6 (forget it!) only the first 4 are supported.
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby kurupetos » Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:15 am

GR! have you ever compared 64bit and 32bit browsers?
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Get Real! » Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:24 am

kurupetos wrote:GR! have you ever compared 64bit and 32bit browsers?

It shouldn't make any difference to Browser output because "32bit" and "64bit" are “memory addressing modes”.

In other words it affects how a computer places and retrieves instructions and data in system memory which is relevant to the architecture of a computer system, but its nothing to do with Browsers... although there is an old wife's tale that 64bit is faster but that's not necessarily so because computing is a lot more complicated than that.
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Get Real! » Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:29 am

More explanation…

It’s true that WIDER data paths (64bit) are faster than narrower ones (32bit) but the (Assembly) instructions to access the wider paths gets bigger and more complicated which in turn cancels out the speed advantage.
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Me Ed » Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:34 am

That's why you should use jquery for cross-browser compatability:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Local Housing Allowance (LHA) Map | StockportDistrict</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>

          document.write('NB: These are CASE SENSITIVE constants!' + '<br><br>');

          document.write('screen.width : ' + screen.width + '<br>');
          document.write('screen.height : ' + screen.height + '<br>');

          document.write('screen.availWidth : ' + screen.availWidth + '<br>');
          document.write('screen.availHeight : ' + screen.availHeight + '<br><br>');

          document.write('normal window.innerWidth : ' + window.innerWidth + '<br>');
          document.write('jquery window.innerWidth : ' + $(window).innerWidth() + '<br>');

          document.write('normal window.innerHeight : ' + window.innerHeight + '<br>');
          document.write('jquery window.innerHeight : ' + $(window).innerHeight() + '<br><br>');

          document.write('normal window.outerWidth : ' + window.outerWidth + '<br>');
          document.write('jquery window.outerWidth : ' + $(window).outerWidth() + '<br>');

          document.write('normal window.outerHeight : ' + window.outerHeight + '<br>');
          document.write('jquery window.outerHeight : ' + $(window).outerHeight() + '<br>');

</script>
</body>
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Get Real! » Sat Nov 03, 2012 12:18 pm

Thanks for the script Me Ed!

I’m getting this output…

NB: These are CASE SENSITIVE constants!

screen.width : 1600
screen.height : 900
screen.availWidth : 1600
screen.availHeight : 870

normal window.innerWidth : 1600


…and a “Failed to load resource” error so I suppose this library was inaccessible to the script.


NB: I changed screen on this machine so don’t be shocked by the discrepancies! :lol:
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Get Real! » Sat Nov 03, 2012 12:24 pm

NB: These are CASE SENSITIVE constants!

screen.width : 1600
screen.height : 900

screen.availWidth : 1600
screen.availHeight : 870

window.innerWidth : 1600
window.innerHeight : 758

window.outerWidth : 1592 <----Still getting the bug under maxthon.
window.outerHeight : 862

8 pixels gone missing! :lol:
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Sotos » Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:32 pm

Get Real! wrote:…and a “Failed to load resource” error so I suppose this library was inaccessible to the script.


Do you have jQuery? If you don't then how would your script find it? ;) I don't have Maxthon to test your script but to load JQuery replace this line:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>


with this:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Get Real! » Sat Nov 03, 2012 5:12 pm

I wouldn’t want to draw attention to the source of this library Sotos… :lol:

But no, I don't do jquery and hopefully never will as I’ve got enough languages to juggle with already without introducing another!
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Re: Browser bugs with screen size constants

Postby Sotos » Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:01 pm

Do you know Javascript? I am not talking about just copy/paste scripts from the internet. Jquery is not exactly a new language. It is a javascript library that makes writing js code much easier and takes care of most differences between browsers. If you are a Javascript expert then you don't need Jquery. Otherwise learning Jquery is the easiest way to write JS code. Jquery is very easy to learn if you know CSS and some basics of Javascript. Here is a nice free intro course: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/jquer ... rst-flight
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