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Chapter 2 ✦ Window and Frame Objects (Chapter 16)
Setting Outer Sizes
As the document loads, it saves the current outer dimensions in global variables.
One of the buttons restores the windows to these settings. Two parallel sets of buttons
set the inner and outer dimensions to the same pixel values so that you can
see the effects on the overall window and document area when a script changes the
various properties.
Because Navigator 4 displays different-looking buttons in different platforms (as
well as other elements), the two buttons contain script instructions to size the window
to best display the window contents. Unfortunately, no measure of the active
area of a document is available, so that the dimension values were determined by
trial and error before being hard-wired into the script.
navigator
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Example
This book is littered with examples of using the navigator object, primarily for
performing browser detection. Examples of specific navigator object properties
can be found in Chapter 28 of the JavaScript Bible and Chapter 12 of this book.
offscreenBuffering
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windowObject.offscreenBuffering