- From: Mark D. Wood <mdw@itc.kodak.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 16:13:58 -0400
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, "Mark D. Wood" <mdw@itc.kodak.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
At 07:07 AM 9/4/97 -0400, Dave Raggett wrote: >On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Mark D. Wood wrote: > >> Why doesn't the HTML4.0 spec support percentages for the height & >> width attributes to the IMG tag? As I understand the spec (I've >> reproduced the relevant portions below), the values for the HEI >> and WID attributes must be expressed as absolute pixels. > >Current browsers don't support % units on IMG for width >and height. Furthermore its not clear what these would >mean. % for width is meaningful, but what about height? MSIE & Netscape both *do* support %units on IMG HEI & WID tags and have for some time. The percentages are of the window height and width. As an aside, MS & Netscape don't handle the percentages in completely identical manners---they do different things if both are specified, which is another argument for a standard here. >In any case, there is no agreement to focus on using >style sheets to control presentation rather than extending >further the presentation attributes in HTML. I can buy this argument, although I'm not sure that I completely like it. -Mark Wood
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