- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:51:05 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
Gilbert wrote: >REC-html40-19980424 section 13.7.1 says: > >| When the object is an image, it is scaled. User agents should do their best >| to scale an object or image to match the width and height specified by the >| author. Note that lengths expressed as percentages are based on the >| horizontal or vertical space currently available, not on the natural size of > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >| the image, object, or applet. > >What exactly is "vertical space currently available", I mean my canvas >has practically an infinite amout of vertical space available. available = visible >(Note that CSS-1 forbids percentages values for `height'). Hmm... sounds similar to the "cop-out" that HTML 4.0 regards TD width="n%" as invalid. Guess I'll have to start specifying CSS for my TDs... -Walter x-nolongerexperimentaldespiteprefixohwellcestdommagenestcepas
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