Re: width='' and height='' on <video>

Maurice Carey wrote:
> On 10/10/07 4:52 AM, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> Regarding IRC logs from yesterday:
>>
>> The <video> element currently lacks width and height attributes on
>> the grounds that:
>>   1) They'd be presentational.
>>   2) YouTube and the like put all videos in the same box.
>>   3) Different dimensions are called for different media, so the
>> <div><style scoped media='...'> video { width: ...; height: ...; } </
>> style><style scoped media='...'> video { width: ...; height: ...; } </
>> style><video>...</video></div> would encourage media-independence
>> while <video width='...' height='...'>...</video> would not.
>>
>> And, yet, for *practical* purposes, authors seem to *expect* to have
>> width and height attributes at their disposal. (Based on expectations
>> voiced on IRC.) I suggest adding width and height attributes to <video>.
> 
> <video style="width:320px; height:240px; border:2px solid #036;
> margin:16px;"> wouldn't work?
> 

It would work but it's currently non-conforming (the style attribute is not in 
the draft). I am hopeful this will change [1]. I also think that width and 
height attributes on <video> make sense by analogy to <img>.

[1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/StyleAttribute


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