Re: [docbook] Re: HTML5 Audio + Video multiple sources

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 10/12/13 15:26, Norman Walsh wrote:
> davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk> writes:
> > I'm interested in your (and anyone elses) thoughts on HTML5 Norm?
>
> It's not what I would have done, but no one asked me. As a refinement
> of HTML for use in browsers as a skeleton to hang JavaScript actions
> on, it's a very good fit. As a vocabulary to tag documents, it's
> better than HTML4 if a bit...quirky.
>
> > What functionality is lost please?
>
> The HTML5 image/video elements, AFAICT, have no facilities for setting
> the size or scaling, for example. In HTML+CSS you'd do that by
> wrapping eleven divs with random class names [stop being fascetious -ed]
> around the video and using CSS to style them.
>
> We have "width" and "depth" (yes, I wish we'd named that "height"),
> "contentwidth" and "contentdepth", "align", "valign", "scale", and "scalefit"
> as attributes on the data element and carefully considered rules for how
> they interact, see: http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/imagedata.html
>
> If we adopted something isomorphic to HTML5, we'd lose the size and
> scaling controls.
>
>                                          Be seeing you,
>                                            norm

Thanks. For me, resizing images is important.
A good reason not to use HTML5 (until fixed)


regards

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