- From: Belov, Charles <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:13:23 -0800
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: <rocallahan@gmail.com>, "Joao Eiras" <joao-c-eiras@telecom.pt>, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
Robert O'Callahan wrote on Thursday, December 09, 2010 6:58 PM
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Belov, Charles
<Charles.Belov@sfmta.com> wrote:
>> Border images might be used to ensure that the unsafe area
doesn't contain any
>>black space. If one resizes the viewport, then there will be black
space around the
>> page, which may not fit in with the rest of the page's design.
> OK, that is easily done if the browser displays the page background
outside the bounds
>of the viewport. For example, an author could write:
>html {
> background: url(top.png) top -20px center,
> url(left.png) left -20px center,
> url(right.png) right -20px center,
> url(bottom.png) bottom -20px center; }
>If top.png and bottom.png are 20px high, and left.png and right.png are
20px wide, this >would draw the four images in the unsafe area, assuming
the browser has set the CSS
>viewport to the safe area.
>> In any case, it would be the consumer who would have to resize
their viewport
> Why? Why can't a TV browser just set the CSS viewport to the safe area
of the TV?
The TV browser has no way of knowing whether the TV set it is displaying
on needs a safe area. But if you mean, why can't TV browsers be
programmed to always allow for a safe area whether a safe area is needed
on a particular set or not, they probably can be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area
Hope this helps,
Charles Belov
SFMTA Webmaster
Received on Friday, 10 December 2010 18:17:23 UTC