Image intrinsic aspect ratio and replaced element box aspect ratio

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#height
> If both attributes are specified, then the ratio of the specified  
> width to the specified height must be the same as the ratio of the  
> logical width to the logical height in the image file.

Why is this requirement useful? As far as I can tell, it isn't  
required for interop and makes an interoperably implemented feature  
non-conforming for no good reason. Moreover, it makes the conformance  
of the markup document dependent on external resource  
representations, which complicates things a lot and makes markup  
conformance a concept that you can't observe from the markup itself  
alone.

I suggest removing this requirement.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 08:20:07 UTC