Feedback on Media Queries CR

Some feedback/questions regarding the Media Queries CR:

 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20020708/

Given the W3C has already developed a framework (CC/PP) for
describing device capabilities (to be used by a server to
generate appropriate content), why did the CSS WG ignore this 
work and develop yet another, competing solution?

A design principle in section 2.4 of the CSS2 spec:

 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/intro.html#q6

says CSS2 is device independent:

[[
Vendor, platform, and device independence. Style sheets enable 
documents to remain vendor, platform, and device independent. 
...
]]

yet Media Queries break this principle by adding device *dependent*
data to a document.  Why did the CSS WG break this very important 
design principle?

Regards,

Art Barstow
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