Re: KEEP IMAGE RATIO

On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:46 am, John Manko wrote: > Ok, before you go responding with percentages, I should note this. > > consider this: > Image1 : 100x100 (Ratio = 1:1) > Image2 : 100x200 (Ratio = 1:2) > > Space available for display : 75x75 > > now, i can say "width=75% height=75%", but this will > only work for Image1, since Image2 will end up > as 75x150 (which clearly does not fit the 75x75 constraints) > > now, if i specify "width=75 height=75", again, this works for Image1, but > not Image2, since the new Image2 ratio will be 1:1, with Image2 losing > 1/2 of it's heigth ratio. And I still don't see how your proposed method handles the problem you mentioned above with Image2... RDB > John Manko wrote: > > Ok, I'm surprised that this is not taken care of with HTML. > > > > I propose the following standard (but also looking for a PHP > > workaround if available) > > for the Img HTML tag: > > > > RATIO = Keep|Ignore, default Ignore > > > > < img width='x' height='y' RATIO='Keep|Ignore' > > > > > > > Where, RATIO=Keep will inlarge the image to a > > max WIDTH or HEIGHT (which ever comes first), > > without changing the perspective ratio. > > > > I don't want to have to use Photoshop or Gimp to > > ensure that the images a width=x or heigth=y will keep ratio. > > > > If anyone belongs to W3C, please consider this. > > > > Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. -------------------------------------------------