Re: [screen-orient] why not provide at CSSOM API to CSS Device Adaptation instead?

Hi there,

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> CSS Device Adaptation should hopefully be enabled on all browsers (desktop and mobile) unlike the viewport meta tag, which cannot be enabled on desktop browsers easily as many desktop sites actually comes with a viewport meta tag which is ignored. Having that not being ignored breaks the sites.
>
> *Sigh*
>
>>
>> MS already enabled a subset of the CSS Device Adaptation spec in IE10 desktop.
>>
>> I support adding some CSSOM API's for CSS Device Adaptation, but I would not do so for the viewport meta tag, which has its share of issues.
>
> Understandably given the above. Outside of the IE10 implementation mentioned above, have other implementors committed to implement the CSS part of CSS Device Adaptation?
>

We are looking at enabling it for Chromium, no ETA on that though, as
there seems to be some interest from Android and Opera as well.

>> I would also like the CSS Device Adaptation, orientation lock and Fullscreen to integrate. Especially it would be nice to click on an element in portrait and have it go fullscreen in landscape mode and lock, all with a nice animation.
>
> Agreed. These should work together as much as possible.
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> --tobie
>



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Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
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Received on Thursday, 25 April 2013 13:45:29 UTC