[whatwg] VIDEO tag height/width best fit

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Biju Gm at il 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.

It's automatically like this.

# Video content should be rendered inside the element's playback area such 
# that the video content is shown centered in the playback area at the 
# largest possible size that fits completely within it, with the video 
# content's adjusted aspect ratio being preserved.
 -- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video

Cheers,
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