On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:37:32 +0600, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* The height and width attributes as defined are completely presentational. I don't really see any value in keeping them. Now I suppose they have to be supported anyway, but so does <body bgcolor="">.
I'm thinking of only allowing integer values, and requiring them to be equal to the dimensions of the image, if present (and requiring both to be present if either is present). Would people be ok with that? The use case is giving the UA information on the dimensions of the image before the image has been downloaded, the same as the type="" or hreflang="" attributes on the <link> element give information on the resource before the resource is fetched.
That's how these attributes could have been defined if we were designing HTML from scratch.
In today's browsers, specifying width and height on <img> different from the actual dimensions of the image forces the image to be resized for display. There is existing content which relies on this.
-- Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
