[Dynapi-Dev] ns6 w/h and browser advocacy

[Cameron H. <ca...@bi...>]

Hi,

I remember a post from Robert saying he'd got offsetWidth and offsetHeight
working in NS6 using a setTimeout. Was this specific to one of the widgets
Robert, or did it fix W/H for everything in NS6?

If you need a setTimeout for the thing to work properly, it sounds like a
bug in the browser. The great thing about Mozilla is if you post a bug,
they'll fix it for you ;-) It can take a while, it depends on how important
the developers feel that peice of functionality is. But I think it would be
worth writing a test case and a bug report for the W/H bug. I can submit one
if someone (Robert I guess) tells me how to reproduce the bug, that is how
it works versus how you think it should work.

Something else which might be if interest to DOM enthusiasts, I was
wondering why offsetHeight and offsetWidth and similar measurements aren't
in any of the DOM's. I posted a query about this to ww...@w3..., and the
response was it's been put on the back burner as there hasn't been that much
interest in this functionality. Apparently it will probably end up in DOM3.
I thought it would have been pretty core functionality...