- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:49:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > > Not a bad idea, I suppose, but I'd like to understand more about the use > case for this kind of functionality. What *behaviour* (not presentation, > since that would be CSS) do you expect you'd change based on the active > media type? You could change, e.g., whether to display an animated chart on a <canvas>, or whether to display a static chart (when printing). > Secondly, is 'the current media type' only ever a single value, or can more > than one media type be active at one time (e.g., 'projection' + 'screen'?). CSS defines it as impossible for there to be two modes on one canvas active at any one time, so window.mediaMode can only ever be one value. > Finally, 'window.medium' is a really bad choice for the name. I know that > 'medium' is the right word (if only one can be active), but no-one's going to > associate 'medium' with 'active media type'. 'mediaType' would be better. I agree; I considered mediaType but that's often used to mean MIME type, which is why I instead called it mediaMode. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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