- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:42:35 -0500
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Using attributes to describe actual metadata about an image that has > real practical benefits, for both the author and user, is not > presentational in my view. Yes, but that is not what the height and width attributes are. They say nothing about the image and everything about the size at which the image is drawn. > There's even an edge case where specifying incorrect dimensions could > still be considered semantic. Unfortunately, I can't find the site I'm > thinking of, but I've seen a site somewhere that created art by using > small images and stretching them for the pixelation effect. In this > case, stretching the image is part of the artwork's artistic value and > meaning, not just it's presentation, and it would lose it all if the > image were shown at it's actual size. > There are always edge cases. The distinction between semantics and presentation is a fuzzy one. Nonetheless, I think most of the time height and width as specified on today's img tags are clearly presentational. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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