What you're looking for is viewport height/width. I'm not in front of a box right now to see if jQuery has some such function to grab that info.
Drew On 8/7/09, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to make my wydiwys presentation tool autoscale single > images to the browser window. I want to fill as much of the > window as I can, while preserving the image aspect ratio. > The math is easy, but learning the pixel height of the inside > of the browser window is surprisingly difficult. > > I am using javascript and jQuery with the webslide pages. Right > now, I am scaling the image to 100% height, querying it to see > what the height turns out to be, then rescaling down if it slops > over on width. Which joggles the display if the browser window > is tall and narrow. It would be nicer to know how big the window > is, do the math, and display the image correctly the first time. > > I'm pretty new to all this, and a lousy programmer. Can anyone > suggest some browser-independent(*) code that will provide the > height of the inside bounding box, and perhaps explain a little > bit of how it works and what might break it? > > Keith > > (*) Okay, screw the really old browsers, but IE7/8, Firefox 2/3, > Chrome, Safari, etc. jQuery is cool because it provides a cross > platform API, but I haven't found a function that does what I want. > > (ObRelevance) Wydiwys is open source, works best on Linux, and > will hopefully replace a lot of closed source tools. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
