What is self.moveBy and why doesn't it work on Chrome?

Question

I found the self.moveBy function here.

Somehow the code doesn't seem to work on Chrome, although self.moveBy does exist on Chrome!

What exactly is self.moveBy, and why doesn't it work on Chrome?

Answer 1

it is a javascript security setting that is disabled by default will be disabled by default in firefox too (some late Nightly version) including:

window.moveBy
window.moveTo
window.resizeTo
window.resizeBy

Answer 2

It's the same as window.moveBy, and moves the current window by a specified amount. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.moveBy

See also, What's the difference between self and window?

I don't think you can get it to work in chrome, and I can see why they would want to disable it, although it is fun ;-)