So ... instead of specifying it properly they abandoned it? If you abandoned everything the browsers didn't handle universally you would have html2
Art On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:44 AM, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: > Arthur Clifford <[email protected]>, 2011-11-21 00:16 -0800: > >> Anybody know why that particular decision was made? Given how long that >> has been an industry standard it seems a weird thing to ditch. > > Because processing of percent values was never was specified properly in > HTML4, and browsers never handled it interoperably (or at all), especially > for the case where you have both width and height values specified. > > Try doing using width="75%" height = "75%" and compare the rendering in > several different browsers. > > --Mike > > -- > Michael[tm] Smith > http://people.w3.org/mike/+
