Attribute references

David Dorward david at dorward.me.uk
Mon Jan 10 14:21:07 EST 2005


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:11:46PM +0000, european bob wrote:
> > I mean, the <img> tag does have 'height' and 'width' attributes, and
> > that's exactly what they're for. It's not presentation information,
> > it's meta data about the image specified by the tag.
 
> Actually, it's not. HTML 4.01, #13.7.1 - deprecated in favour of
> stylesheets.

The spec does not mark those attributes as deprecated. (Then again,
<b> and <i> aren't deprecated either).

> Since the standard says you scale the image, clearly it's not semantic

True

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk



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