Video is automatically scaled to fit inside its "box" while maintaining the correct aspect ratio.
Philip On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 00:19 -0400, Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize if I did not understood > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video > > I see a situation where we want to specify the height and width of the > BOX in which a video need to be displayed. And while writing HTML code > we dont know the height/width of the video. But when playing we want > the video to be displayed with maximum size which can fit in the BOX > without loosing the aspect ratio. > > After reading the <video> tag specification I dont see a way to > achieve this with out javascript code. > > We should have one more attribute to tell how to "fit" the image/video > > == "fit" attribute values === > * center - if it is small keep at center > * stretch - stretch/skew height and width to fit > * stretch-height - stretch/skew height only to fit, > adjust width to maintain aspect ratio. > * stretch-width - stretch/skew width only to fit, > adjust height to maintain aspect ratio. > * stretch-best - stretch/skew height or width to maximum > so that other will fit in > and maintain aspect ratio. > > May be we can also have a "tile" option > > This problem also exist for <img> tag. -- Philip Jägenstedt Opera Software
