The PlayStation 3 Silk browser likes to pretend it's a modern browser but it certainly isn't in all ways.

In jquery 1.3.2 which our site is using in production, the offset method that the silk browser uses is the non-getBoundingClientRect one.

This method assumes that document.defaultView exists, however, the Silk browser does not offer this and therefore does not have a method getComputedStyle. This causes an exception to be raised which Silk silently swallows.

I found that in another jQuery method: curCSS, there is proper detection logic to see if document.defaultView exists and if it doesn't it falls back to using the "currentStyle" property on the DOM element.

My patch essentially does the same fallback logic for the offset method.

Here it is:

jQuery.fn.offset = function() {

if ( !this[0] ) return { top: 0, left: 0 };

if ( this[0] === this[0].ownerDocument.body ) return jQuery.offset.bodyOffset( this[0] );

jQuery.offset.initialized || jQuery.offset.initialize();

var elem = this[0], offsetParent = elem.offsetParent, prevOffsetParent = elem,

doc = elem.ownerDocument, computedStyle, docElem = doc.documentElement,

body = doc.body, defaultView = doc.defaultView,

prevComputedStyle = (defaultView) ? defaultView.getComputedStyle(elem, null) : elem.currentStyle,

top = elem.offsetTop, left = elem.offsetLeft;

while ( (elem = elem.parentNode) && elem !== body && elem !== docElem ) {

computedStyle = (defaultView) ? defaultView.getComputedStyle(elem, null) : elem.currentStyle;

top -= elem.scrollTop, left -= elem.scrollLeft;

if ( elem === offsetParent ) {

top += elem.offsetTop, left += elem.offsetLeft;

if ( jQuery.offset.doesNotAddBorder && !(jQuery.offset.doesAddBorderForTableAndCells && /^t(able|d|h)$/i.test(elem.tagName)) )

top += parseInt( computedStyle.borderTopWidth, 10) || 0,

left += parseInt( computedStyle.borderLeftWidth, 10) || 0;

prevOffsetParent = offsetParent, offsetParent = elem.offsetParent;

}

if ( jQuery.offset.subtractsBorderForOverflowNotVisible && computedStyle.overflow !== "visible" )

top += parseInt( computedStyle.borderTopWidth, 10) || 0,

left += parseInt( computedStyle.borderLeftWidth, 10) || 0;

prevComputedStyle = computedStyle;

}

if ( prevComputedStyle.position === "relative" || prevComputedStyle.position === "static" )

top += body.offsetTop,

left += body.offsetLeft;

if ( prevComputedStyle.position === "fixed" )

top += Math.max(docElem.scrollTop, body.scrollTop),

left += Math.max(docElem.scrollLeft, body.scrollLeft);

return { top: top, left: left };

};