- From: Tab Atkins Jr. via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:35:38 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Right, we deprecated the media type and *didn't* reproduce it in a MQ (instead reproducing the axises of variation people actually want to respond to) precisely *because* it's an incoherent concept and never what you *actually* want. There are many axises of variation you can possibly care about (screen size, existence of a pointer or hover capability, etc) and while there is a meaningful clustering of those values into something we call "phones", there's more than enough overlap in device capabilities that addressing that cluster is usually doing your users a disservice. Small screen layouts are usually desirable when a desktop user has a narrow window at the side of the screen, hover-less layouts are useful when webpages are displayed on TVs despite having desktop-ish sizes, etc. If browsers have more differences than what are currently covered by appropriate MQs, and there's a reasonable use-case for exposing those differences to authors, we can add MQs to cover them. But I don't think the logic behind deprecating the media type is invalid. -- GitHub Notification of comment by tabatkins Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7696#issuecomment-1239917317 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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