- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:27:16 +0100
- To: Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- CC: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
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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