- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:48:39 +1100
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:36:38 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer > <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:27:30 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer >>> <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am staring at the @width and @height attributes of the <video> >>>> element, because I have just noticed that the implementation of IE9 >>>> doesn't respect percentage values in there. I remembered Hixie saying >>>> that if you gave them a value that included "px", that's strictly >>>> speaking not valid, since the value is a unsigned long but a browser >>>> will just drop the "px" and interpret it correctly. >>> >>> That it's unsigned long is only relevant for getting and setting the >>> .width >>> and .height IDL attributes, it's not relevant for how the content >>> attribute's value is interpreted. >>> >>> >>>> I am now wondering if a percentage value is correct, >>> >>> Following the link for <video width> I come to >>> >>> >>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/the-map-element.html#attr-dim-width >>> >>> which says >>> >>> "Author requirements: The width and height attributes [...] if specified, >>> must have values that are valid non-negative integers." >>> >>> and >>> >>> "A string is a valid non-negative integer if it consists of one or more >>> characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9)." >>> >>> So that makes it clear that percentage values are invalid as far as >>> document >>> conformance goes. >>> >>> But the UA requirements gives: >>> >>> >>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/rendering.html#dimRendering >>> >>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/rendering.html#maps-to-the-dimension-property >>> >>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/common-microsyntaxes.html#rules-for-parsing-dimension-values >>> >>> ...which supports percentage values. >> >> >> So, now I am even more confused: are they invalid or supported? How do >> you reconcile these two seemingly opposing positions? > > They are invalid *and* supported. :-) Defined error handling if you will. > It's all over the place in HTML5. See this section: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/introduction.html#conformance-requirements-for-authors As long as the percent-values aren't deprecated... cause if they are, IE behavior would be accurate, IMO. Silvia.
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