how can I find documentation on screen, window etc?

**Martin Honnen** · Jul 20 '05, 03:31 PM

Re: how can I find documentation on screen, window etc?

Andy Fish wrote:

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> I an trying to figure out how to use some browser objects like screen,
> window, parent, document, top etc. These are available as built-in global
> variables when programming the browser using javascript.
>
> it seems that they are not part of the HTML DOM (well, "document" is but
> properties like "document.locat ion" aren't) so I don't know where to look.
>
> They are described in netscape's documentation for javascript 1.3 but that
> is well out of date now. The newer netscape documentation confines itself to
> just the language features and leaves everything else to the DOM
> specification.
>
> there are lots of tutorials and unofficial information, but I could really
> use a spec to go by, so that I can produce some portable code. Any clues
> please? - all this "trial and error" programming is driving me mad.[/color]

Use the Netscape 1.3 client side JavaScript reference documentation,
what it says about window, screen, navigator is usually implemented by
other browsers.
As for other browsers, for MS IE check
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...obj_window.asp
for the window object and have a look at the MSDN library in general for
the documentation on other objects.
As for Opera check

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#jscript

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

**Andy Fish** · Jul 23 '05, 09:36 AM

Re: how can I find documentation on screen, window etc?

Thanks for the quick response and the links. At least now I know there is no
single standard

BTW I have also found the "missing" documentation for newer versions of
netscape at the mozilla site - http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/.

Andy

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> Andy Fish wrote:
>
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> > I an trying to figure out how to use some browser objects like screen,
> > window, parent, document, top etc. These are available as built-in[/color][/color]
global[color=blue][color=green]
> > variables when programming the browser using javascript.
> >
> > it seems that they are not part of the HTML DOM (well, "document" is but
> > properties like "document.locat ion" aren't) so I don't know where to[/color][/color]
look.[color=blue][color=green]
> >
> > They are described in netscape's documentation for javascript 1.3 but[/color][/color]
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> > is well out of date now. The newer netscape documentation confines[/color][/color]
itself to[color=blue][color=green]
> > just the language features and leaves everything else to the DOM
> > specification.
> >
> > there are lots of tutorials and unofficial information, but I could[/color][/color]
really[color=blue][color=green]
> > use a spec to go by, so that I can produce some portable code. Any clues
> > please? - all this "trial and error" programming is driving me mad.[/color]
>
> Use the Netscape 1.3 client side JavaScript reference documentation,
> what it says about window, screen, navigator is usually implemented by
> other browsers.
> As for other browsers, for MS IE check
>[/color]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...obj_window.asp[color=blue]
> for the window object and have a look at the MSDN library in general for
> the documentation on other objects.
> As for Opera check
> http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#jscript
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>[/color]

how can I find documentation on screen, window etc?

how can I find documentation on screen, window etc?

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