[csswg-drafts] [cssom-view] [css-viewport] Deprecate/Find a better name for the term “Layout Viewport” (#8237)

bramus has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [cssom-view] [css-viewport] Deprecate/Find a better name for the term “Layout Viewport” ==
As a follow-up to Interop2022’s [Viewport Investigation Effort](https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/), I’m filing this issue that came up.

The gist of issue https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/issues/25 is that:

- The term “the viewport” is a term that is [specced in the CSS2 spec](https://drafts.csswg.org/css2/#viewport)
- The term “the viewport” can be confusing as there are several viewports _(e.g. the visual viewport)_
- The term “layout viewport” is often as an alternative, but the term is not really defined
- Defining the term “layout viewport” could be an option, but its name not indicative of what it does. It’s more of a “position fixed viewport“, while the ICB actually affects layout.

During the discussions we wondered if the term “layout viewport” could be deprecated and/or if we could come up with a better name than just “the viewport”.

Some alternative terms that were suggested in [the original issue](https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/issues/25):

- document viewport
- scroll viewport
- frame viewport
- canvas viewport
- main viewport
- root viewport




Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8237 using your GitHub account


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