- From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) <jim.bigelow@hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:51:33 -0800
- To: werner.donne@re.be
- Cc: W3C CSS List <www-style@w3.org>
Your issue, shown below, has been rejected by the editor. If you have any further comment on this topic, you have 7 days, until 14 February 2004, to respond. > > Issue 41 > > 2) Media Queries > > > > I'm not sure if expressing page layout in terms of a > > conditional page size has so much added value. I assume this > > is for page sizes which are set from outside by the user > > agent. One can cope with that using relative values. The > > cases where this is not good enough are, in my opinion, > > locale related. Wouldn't it therefore be more useful to > > combine this with the pseudo class :lang for @page rules? > > > Media Queries are design to work with style sheets that implement a the graphic design of a page that may shift or change depending on the capabilities of the UA. A particular media query is, in effect, a conditional statement that when true will instruct the UA to load and process a style sheet. Extensions to the Media Query mechanism are outside the scope of this document. Style sheets that are intended to be effective in UA's having a particular combination of capabilities can include the :lang() pseudo-classes, attribute selectors and @page rules as appropriate for a specific page design. -- Jim Bigelow, editor
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