- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:09:17 -0800
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> Another thing, if I as a website developer find a video that was encoded >> with the wrong pixel ratio, wouldn't the simplest, and most intuitive, >> way to fix it be to simply set a width and height on video until it >> looked approximately correct? Yes, it's a hack, and should not >> discouraged, but so is pixelratio. >> >> (haven't followed this discussion in detail so appologies if >> width/height has been disqualified already) > > width/height on <video> doesn't stretch, so that you can play videos of > varying aspect ratios in the same surface without rendering issues. Ah, makes sense. Wasn't there once upon a time a CSS draft that let you specify how replaced elements should stretch in situations like this? So you could choose if it should zoom-to-fit (like it sounds like <video> does) or stretch-to-fit (like <img> does), zoom-to-fill as well as a few other things. I can't seem to find it though... I guess my point is, can we let CSS deal with this? If it indeed needs to be dealt with. / Jonas
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