Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-device-adapt] @viewport is preloader-hostile

I feel that if there was any developer interest in nonresponsive fixed
 layouts, we would've seen uptake of those capabilities of meta 
viewport in the ~2008-2012 period where iPhone was ascendant and had a
 single screen size.  The fact that we didn't is a pretty strong 
signal that those capabilities are useless, to me.  (I think it's a 
big stretch to argue that the media query feature was the key missing 
piece that prevented that.)  I also feel that I would've seen, in 
years of bug triage, at least one issue that made me think, "ah, if 
only we supported @viewport sizing capabilities, this could be 
solved".

So I don't think I'm jumping to conclusions.  I think we gave that 
layout model a good chance and experience has shown it's a dead end.  
The only thing that was actually needed, and the inexorable trend of 
how UAs and webdevs treat meta viewport in practice, is as a 
convoluted equivalent to the old "mobileOptimized=true/false" 
property.

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