- From: Robert Rothenberg <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 17:37:58 -0400
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- CC: "Adam" <adam@the-site.net>, <www-html@w3.org>
> At 04:35 PM 05/06/98 -0400, Adam wrote: > >I propose some sort of Resoloution Meta tag ie > ><META RES="640,480"> > >allowing the browser to resize images and tables and rescale the document to > >allow better visability. No need to create new tags. Especially with the META element. One could use something like <META NAME="Recommended-Screen" CONTENT="640,480"> which of course is useless if no browsers handle it. Oh yes: note that name I chose was "Recommended-Screen". Because HTML is device independent, so this element applies only to screens (and not printers, voice renderers, text terminals, etc.) and it's only a recommendation... the browser is not obligated to follow it. And what should the browser do with this information? Resize the window? Scale the window? Allow a scrolling window? Screen resolution has no meaning anyway, since pixels do not correspond with any meaningful sizes (dots-per-inch and default font sizes vary). On 8 Jun 98, Liam Quinn wrote: > [..] > It would be easier to write good HTML and scalable CSS. Then pages > naturally adjust to any browsing environment. Yes. Combined with scripting as well. Rob
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