[ILUG-Webdev] Resizing windows

[Niall O Broin]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:27, you wrote:

> > self.resizeTo(<?=$w?>, <?=$h?>);
> >
> > which will work just fine in that it will resize the window to the size I
> > specify
>
> No it won't Niall, because NN and IE have (had) different viewpoints on

With respect, my dear, it does, because it's what I'm using currently. This is 
from the production code

function resize() {
// Automatically resize the window to best-fit - only works with Navigator
        if (document.layers) {
                window.innerHeight = document.height + 20;
                window.innerWidth = document.width;
                if (window.innerHeight > screen.availHeight - 30) {
                window.innerHeight = screen.availHeight - 30;
                // Allow for width of scrollbar
                window.innerWidth = document.width + 20;
                }
        } else {
                self.resizeTo(my_width, my_height);
        }
}

and it works fine on NS4, Moz 1.2 and IE 5.5. 

> > but that's no advance on what I already have. I need to
> > be able to ask:
> >
> > Now that this document has been rendered, what are the dimensions
> > of the box which would just contain it ?
> >
> > Resize the window to those dimensions.
>
> Obviously I was just resizing to an image, but this should give you a
> start:

That's the point. You had what seems to me a somewhat longwinded way of 
resizing to known dimensions, as compared to what I do above.

> http://www14.brinkster.com/lloydh/dynlib/demos/layerdimensions.html

I had a quick look there, and hopefully it may be of some help.

> check dims and resize accordingly. You'll still need to do the initial
> resizeTo(100,100) if you want to support IE though. :)

I don't understand what this is about - I don't seem to need it. Perhaps what 
you mean is that before doing the initial resizeTo, the values returned by 
self.document.body.client[Width|Height] are not meaningful.


Niall