FAQ Topic - How do I modify the current browser window? (2009-11-05)

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FAQ Topic - How do I modify the current browser window?
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In a default security environment you are very limited in how much
you can modify the current browser window. You can use
` window.resizeTo ` or ` window.moveTo ` to resize or move a
window respectively, but that is it. Normally you can only
suggest chrome changes in a ` window.open `.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536651.aspx

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM:window.open


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FAQ Topic - How do I modify the current browser window?
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In a default security environment you are very limited in how much
you can modify the current browser window. You can use
` window.resizeTo ` or ` window.moveTo ` to resize or move a
window respectively,

Not always true, AFAIK.

Since I have for a long time had a scripted ReSize button at the top of
my home page, which I put there because it is useful, I cannot imagine
that I have knowingly turned off resizeTo or moveTo (also used) in any
browser.

IE & FF & Safari resize; Opera and Chrome do not.

And, even if I have disabled, or failed to enable, resizeTo and moveTo,
ISTM that authors of pages that I read with Opera or Chrome will be
unable to resize them.

Therefore, the FAQ should not say, without qualification, "You can use
` window.resizeTo ` or ` window.moveTo ` to resize or move a window
respectively, ...".

Change "can" to "may be able to".

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The word "canvas" appears, AFAICS, nowhere in the FAQ. It should, even
if only in Section 3.2. If nothing better is offered, it can maybe link
to <http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html-5-canvas-the-basics/>.

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