[WEB4LIB] Re: Can JavaScript or ASP be used to adjust a

Thomas Dowling tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Tue Jan 15 13:49:21 EST 2002


At 01:01 PM 1/15/2002, Keith Higgs wrote:
>...You are able to do this:
>
>window.outerWidth = new_x;
>window.outerHeight = new_y;
>
>to set the application window size but, you are not able to set specific
>values for the inner width or height. You should remember this when
>designing your page to fit a specific resolution and compensate for all of
>the standard interface elements for the targeted browser....


BTW, window.innerWidth et al. are undefined in IE.  You may need to test 
for its document.body.clientWidth (and ...Height) object also.  As I read 
it, this is a case where IE is non-standard and Netscape 4 and Mozilla both 
have it right.



Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu



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