- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:38:01 +0200 (MET)
- To: "E. Stephen Mack" <estephen@emf.net>, www-font@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
On Oct 6, 9:01am, E. Stephen Mack wrote: > It's true that both Navigator 4 and IE 4 require the width and > height attributes in order to make sense of the OBJECT element, > but the current draft of W3C does *not* require the width and > height attributes [1]; they are just #IMPLIED: > > <!ELEMENT OBJECT - - (PARAM | %inline; | %blocklevel;)* -- generic > embedded object --> > <!ATTLIST OBJECT > [...] > height %Length; #IMPLIED -- suggested height -- > width %Length; #IMPLIED -- suggested width -- > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/struct/objects.html#h-14.2 Yes, the latest public draft $Date: 1997/09/17 11:45:33 $ does say that (Incidentally, it helps when citing drafts to say which dated version was consulted). I think that is an error. There is a tension between trying to remove presentational attributes and trying to make du allowance for current implementations. For object, the UA needs to hand off somne screen real-estate to whatever code is implementing the object (assuming it isn't the UA itself, which it might be). HTML allows the width and height to be given in pixels; CSS allows a wider choice of units; curreent implementations will break, in many cases, if width and height are not in the HTML. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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