- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:47:23 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Tom Neff wrote: > Given that HEIGHT and WIDTH are important for graphical browser > pre-rendering without disruptive redraws, why doesn't the HTML 4.0 DTD > permit INPUT SRC=button.gif HEIGHT=54 WIDTH=27, even at this late date? It seems unnecessary in general to introduce new presentational attributes. Image buttons in general are very risky, see http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/forms/imagebutton.html > We make all this fuss over using dimensions (along with ALT) in regular > images, and we don't even allow it in buttons. We do? There are good reasons _against_ using dimensions for regular images especially if they are small. See http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/html/alt.html So in addition to the fundamental (or "theoretical", if you like) reasons against presentational attributes (especially those specifying dimension in pixels), we have the very practical reason that popular browsers have serious bugs and deficiencies in the implementation of both IMG and INPUT TYPE="image". By the time the bugs have been fixed, I'd expect some decent CSS1 support exist, too. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html
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