[ale] Screen Size

[David Tomaschik]

Terry Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the tips.
>
> In JavaScript,
>
>              screen.availWidth
>
> will find the width of the screen.
>
> Is there a way to do this in Perl?
>
> I could use a JavaScript function, say findit, to do this but then I 
> don't know how to return the calculated value back to Perl.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry Bailey
Because the Perl would be running on the server, it has no way of 
finding the client's screen width natively.  Only by using JS to pass it 
to the perl script (as a GET variable, most likely) would the perl 
script be aware of this.