Re: Weirdly scaled images (again)

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:35:09PM +0200, August Karlstrom wrote:
> On 2015-08-02 16:52, August Karlstrom wrote:
> >Apparently some (or most?) browsers, Firefox for instance, do uniform
> >scaling when only one of the width or height attribute is set on an img
> >element. Dillo does non-uniform scaling and changes only the specified
> >dimension. Here is what the reference has to say about it:
> >
> >"When the object is an image, it is scaled. User agents should do their
> >best to scale an object or image to match the width and height specified
> >by the author."
> >
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#edef-IMG
> >
> >It seems to be a question of interpretation.
> 
> I have posted the question on Stack Overflow:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31773161/specifying-only-width-or-height-for-an-img-element

  FWIW, IMHO, it should scale respecting the original image ratio
(just pragmatics).

  AFAIR, it was/could-be done this way by dillo (using CSS hints) but
somewhere in the redesign (GROWS) these image-size hints were lost.
@Sebastian, @Johannes, please correct me if I'm wrong here.

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-
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