- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:32:54 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 04:09 PM 13/11/97 -0500, Steve Cheng wrote: >On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Liam Quinn wrote: > >> A nice perfect-world solution, IMO, would be to give the width and height >> in an external style sheet, which means that an image's width and height >> need only be specified once for an entire site. > >AFAIK, in HTML 3.2, the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes are only used for >pre-determining the size of the image so graphical browsers may layout the >page "on-the-fly". User agents are not required to scale the image if the >width/height specified are different from the actual dimensions. (HTML 4.0 >appears to change this.) Thus, they serve as an optimizing function more >than affecting presentation. Perhaps they shouldn't really belong in >separate stylesheets. But what they optimize *is* the presentation--they optimize the display of the page. Using style sheets allows other forms of optimization (faster downloads, greater flexibility), but the primary function is still to suggest a presentation--in this case, to suggest (implicitly) an on-the- fly display. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNGuAFfP8EtNrypTwEQIA3QCg9OJxgtp4qMPqUR65jX2CIBiFEbEAn2Ia gYOM5Thjr2joI0KH/u4v/HWl =jRed -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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