Re: Defining safe areas for media devices and set top boxes

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Belov, Charles <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com>wrote:

> Border images might be used to ensure that the unsafe area doesn't contain
> any black space.  If one resizes the viewport, then there will be black
> space around the page, which may not fit in with the rest of the page's
> design.
>

OK, that is easily done if the browser displays the page background outside
the bounds of the viewport. For example, an author could write:

html {
  background: url(top.png) top -20px center,
                       url(left.png) left -20px center,
                       url(right.png) right -20px center,
                       url(bottom.png) bottom -20px center;
}

If top.png and bottom.png are 20px high, and left.png and right.png are 20px
wide, this would draw the four images in the unsafe area, assuming the
browser has set the CSS viewport to the safe area.

In any case, it would be the consumer who would have to resize their
> viewport
>

Why? Why can't a TV browser just set the CSS viewport to the safe area of
the TV?

Rob
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