Re: [css3-mediaqueries] clearer wording for 'orientation' and '*aspect-ratio' for paged media

Isn't "projection" considered a paged media? Maybe it would be better  
to say that:

  # The ‘height’ media feature describes the height of the targeted
  # display area of the viewport. For paged media, the terms
  # "viewports" and "page box" are equivalent.

On Dec 24, 2008, at 9:14 AM, L. David Baron wrote:

>
> We revised the wording for 'height', 'width', 'device-height', and
> 'device-width' to make it clearer how they behave in paged media.
> For example, the definition of 'height' is:
>  # The ‘height’ media feature describes the height of the targeted
>  # display area of the output device. For continuous media, this is
>  # the height of the viewport. For paged media, this is the height
>  # of the page box.
>
> I think we should make similar clarifications to 'aspect-ratio',
> 'device-aspect-ratio', and 'orientation'.  In particular, I think
> 'aspect-ratio' and 'orientation' should be like 'height' and
> 'width', while 'device-aspect-ratio' should be like 'device-height'
> and 'device-width'.
>
> It might even be good to define 'aspect-ratio' and 'orientation' in
> terms of 'width' and 'height', and define 'device-aspect-ratio' in
> terms of 'device-width' and 'device-height'.
>
> -David
>
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> L. David Baron                                 http://dbaron.org/
> Mozilla Corporation                       http://www.mozilla.com/
>

Received on Wednesday, 24 December 2008 18:56:26 UTC