window.resizeTo( … )

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See here:

  1. You can’t resize a window or tab that wasn’t created by window.open.
  2. You can’t resize a window or tab when it’s in a window with more than one tab.
  3. Also, even if you create window by window.open(…) it is not resizable by default …see 4.
  4. To make window created by window.open() resizable, you must open it with resizable feature
myExternalWindow = window.open("http://example.com", "myWindowName", "resizable");
myExternalWindow.resizeTo(500,500); //resize window to 500x500

Input keyboard for decimal input on iPhone

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So I needed to adjust a value (the odds of a horse winning a race) that has a fractional part and an integer part (i.e. a ‘double’, or ‘float’). The standard numeric input on an iPhone doesn’t include a decimal point, so I needed to trigger a different input device.

I ended up with this:

<input type="number" pattern="[\d\.]*" step="0.01" inputmode="numeric">