what's the difference bewteen document.defaultView.getComputedStyle and window.getComputedStyle

Question

when get a element\'s style, we always use

if(document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) to check whether the browser suppo

Answer 1

So in short, the reason why we use document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle is that we want a cross-browser working-on-every-element method of checking whenever it supports fetching computed styles.

Simple if(window.getComputedStyle) would fail for iframes in Firefox 3.6 (according to article linked in comment by Alex K.).