[TYPO3-dev] [Fwd: Re: text/img and img elements with css-class?]

[Franz Koch]

Hi,
> meanwhile i have realised that the idea of elastic images (in an elastic 
> layout) is not popular at all in the typo3 community. 

I can only speak for myself - but I never stumbled over stretching 
images on websites. Every designer and every person that has at least a 
little sense for aesthetics would beat you for scaling images not 
proportional - and that's not possible with CSS like "width:100%" as far 
as I know (not all browsers scale proportional).
Besides of that - scaled images just look ugly in the browser - that's 
also why it might not be that popular.

> to be more precise: i guess that this idea is just not at all in the focus of typo3 
> idea. and i just wonder why:
> 
>    * does typo3 need to have fixed images?
>    * is it just a purist ideology?
>    * is it in the development pipeline to give the editor this possibility?
> 
> i'm grateful of any clear answer to my problem.

there is already a bugtracker entry with patch for that available at 
[1]. The patch will allow to define the dimensions in "em" instead of 
pixels (which will scale proportional with the font-size) - at least the 
RFC in the core list is promising that. So please try that patch if it 
fit's your needs. If it's working for you, you could give a "+1" for it 
in the core list in order to get that feature into typo3. If you're 
missing some feature, you can add your thoughts to the bugtracker or in 
core list where the patch is discussed - but don't go off topic in the 
core list.

[1] http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=8070

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch