283326 - screen.availWidth not updated

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62395

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Description

[Matthew Slyman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

<script type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write("<br>"+screen.width+'x'+screen.height+' '+screen.availwidth);
//-->
</script>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Stick this code in a web page
2.Browse to the page.  Observe.
(If this doesn't reproduce the bug, change your screenmode and refresh the page.)
Actual Results:  
1280x1024 undefined

Expected Results:  
1280x1024 1280 (as observed in IE)

Comment 1

[timeless]

i think you forget to shift your W

Comment 2

[Matthew Slyman]

You are right - it works better with "screen.availWidth" - Firefox recognises
this (IE wrongly recognises screen.availwidth)
===HOWEVER===
I found "screen.availWidth" didn't work properly in Firefox either.

Try this:
Change the code to "screen.availWidth"
[Refresh] the page
Change the screenmode
Browser [Back] and [Forwards], across links on your page, and back to the page
with this code on it again.
Oops!  "screen.availWidth" doesn't reflect the new screenmode.  You must
actually "Refresh" the browser window to make Firefox report the new screenmode.

I will try strengthening my code (belt & braces) with the "window.onResize"
event, and see what happens.

Comment 3

[timeless]

we already have bugs about screen.* not being dynamic.

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62395 ***