- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:01:44 +0600
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:37:32 +0600, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> * The height and width attributes as defined are completely >> presentational. I don't really see any value in keeping them. Now I >> suppose they have to be supported anyway, but so does <body bgcolor="">. > I'm thinking of only allowing integer values, and requiring them to be > equal to the dimensions of the image, if present (and requiring both to > be present if either is present). Would people be ok with that? > > The use case is giving the UA information on the dimensions of the image > before the image has been downloaded, the same as the type="" or > hreflang="" attributes on the <link> element give information on the > resource before the resource is fetched. That's how these attributes could have been defined if we were designing HTML from scratch. In today's browsers, specifying width and height on <img> different from the actual dimensions of the image forces the image to be resized for display. There is existing content which relies on this. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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