Hi !
In this regard, <video> should be handled like <img>.
While handling an image, if you specify a width and leave height as auto,
the UA will resize the height to keep the aspect ratio, because the UA
known the images intrinsic dimensions. The same behavior happens if you
specific height and leave width as auto. IF you specifi non, intrinsic
dimensions will be used.
So, for <video>, the behavior should be the same. The UA knowns the video
file intrisinc dimensions, so the samebehavior can be applied too.
This way we would not overspecify new behavior, which is good, and IMO
enough, therefore simplifying the work of the web authors by reusing the
old algorithm used for images.
Bye.
On , Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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.
