Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-media-queries-5] add clarification on applied order for multiple preferences (#4895)

> There's no hierarchy; they're independent preferences that can be queried separately or together, as the page author desires.
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> > Can I define contrast and color scheme independently, so the cascade can do its job?
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> Not really right now, because dealing with either preference involves assigning to the same properties (`color`, `background-color`, etc), and ideally you want to handle all combinations of those two preferences.

= hierarchy, because to handle all combinations I need to setup my queries that way, e.g. color-scheme and then contrast and results in those matrices of query (+ selectors)

> _That said_, Color 5 is working on a (still _very_ early stages, don't look to its details as particularly informative of a final design yet) [automatic contrast adjuster](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#colorcontrast), where you can feed it two colors and a desired contrast ratio and it spits out one of the colors adjusted appropriately. This should, if we do it right, let you do a quick-and-dirty contrast adjuster automatically: set a `--contrast-ratio` property according to `(prefers-contrast)`, and set `--color-*` properties according to `(prefers-color-scheme)`, then actually write out your color properties by combining the two with `contrast-adjust()`. It's a bit of scaffolding, but it avoids needing to define a 3x2 (for now) set of colors for everything; instead you'd just define 2 sets of colors (light and dark) and let the function deal with contrast for you. The results won't be as good as hand-designing all the combinations, but it should be better than nothing, and you can still do hand-authoring when desired, either totally or piecemeal.

This seems like tackling the problem of spawning the matrices. Thanks for pointing out, will keep an eye on this one.


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