Re: FLASH: Window Resizing Issue using javascript

[Randy Kato]

John,


I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's because NS resizes the entire

window, including all the menubars, but IE uses those dimensions to size

the viewable window, excluding the menubars. The platform differences in

IE are therefore different due to different buttonbars, and as you say,

NS should stay pretty consistent as the way it handles window sizing is

more absolute.


MS has a good idea since the viewable window is the developer's canvas

and having to account for the wide variation of user's menubar settings

means you can't be very precise with NS. But by introducing that, we

wound up with even more headaches. Gotta sniff 'em.


HTH,

Randy


John Olson wrote:


> Why is it that if you run a javascript window resize  on 2 different

> browsers across 2 platforms, you get 4 different window sizes?

>

> I have run into this problem before.

>

> take this one   window.resizeTo(250,250)

>

> Run this on IE 5.0 and Netscape 4.7 on both PC and Mac .. you get 4

> different window sizes..  Netscape seems to be the most consistent

> and closest to square.

>

> Is there a good way to do this?

>

> or..better yet...  why is there a problem between browsers?

>

> -John


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