Allows you to get the physical pixel width of a device using JavaScript.
- Author: Tyson Matanich - http://matanich.com
- License: MIT
Note: GetDevicePixelWidth includes [GetDevicePixelRatio]:(http://github.com/tysonmatanich/GetDevicePixelRatio)
Currently, getDevicePixelWidth.js
compresses to around 450 bytes (~0.4 KB), after minify and gzip. To minify, you might try these online tools: [Microsoft Ajax Minifier]:(http://ajaxmin.codeplex.com/), [Uglify]:(http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/uglifyjs), [Yahoo Compressor]:(http://refresh-sf.com/yui/), or Closure Compiler. Serve with gzip compression.
<script type="text/javascript">
var devicePixelWidth = window.getDevicePixelWidth();
</script>
If you want to assume that the user is in landscape mode use the following:
<script type="text/javascript">
var devicePixelWidth = window.getDevicePixelWidth(true);
</script>
GetDevicePixelWidth supports a broad range of browsers and devices (there are currently no known unsupported browsers).