Question

For whatever reason the following:

$(function() {
  $(window).resize(function() {
    alert("resized!");
  });
});

only fires an event when the page is loaded. Resizing the browser window does nothing in both Safari and Firefox. I have not tried it on any other browsers.

Any ideas or workaround?

Answer 1

I think your alert is causing a problem try this instead

 $(window).resize(function() {
   $('body').prepend('<div>' + $(window).width() + '</div>');
 });

jsfiddle