Question

Is this possible?

Very much in need of the window.scrollTo() function, but it seems that sites like Facebook and others have removed them (or at least removed the references).

Answer 1

They have not removed them. It does matter when you call them though.

Since most content if FB is brought in the page by ajax, if you call the scroll before the content is fetched, there is nowhere to scroll..

If you open firebug (or whatever javascript console you use) and issue a window.scrollTo(0,1000) while a page is displayed, it will scroll just fine. So it is there.

So be more specific about what you are trying to do, so we can see if we can help.

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update after comment

For orkut specifically: They have created a wrapper div of the whole content that is 100% width and height. So the window does not have any room to scroll, as all content is isnide the wrapped and the scroll happens there. So the window.scrollTo does nothing (it exists though).

To actually scroll in there you need to find the container div which is the parent of the one with id gwtPanel and use its scrollTop property.

var scrollingNode = document.getElementById('gwtPanel').parentNode;
scrollingNode.scrollTop=500;