Image syntax

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On 7/27/05, Aaron Swartz <aaronsw at gmail.com> wrote:

> > But how does "300px" qualify as a size? It's just one dimension.

> 

> I can't think of any real example where I wanted to distort the aspect

> ration of an image. Actually, this number should probably be specified

> in ems in a typical font on a typical display or something more

> comprehensible than pixels.


I believe (but am far less geeky than many on this list) that height
and width attributes for images allow page rendering to be faster (and
probably not have to move text elements around after full images
load). -Joe