This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The Window property screen returns a reference to the screen object associated with the window. The screen object, implementing the Screen interface, is a special object for inspecting properties of the screen on which the current window is being rendered.
A Screen object.
if (screen.pixelDepth < 8) {
// use low-color version of page
} else {
// use regular, colorful page
}
| Specification |
|---|
| CSSOM View Module> # dom-window-screen> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
screen |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/screen