- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:30:54 +0200
- To: "Simon Fraser" <smfr@me.com>, "W3C style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:34:47 +0200, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote: > On Aug 4, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Bert Bos wrote: >> The CSS WG published an update of the CSSOM View module: >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-cssom-view-20090804/ > > The Media interface on AbstractView effectively adds a property called > 'media' to the window object. There is a high probability that this will > conflict with web sites that have global variables called 'media' (for > example, this happened in the WebKit layout tests). > > There is also terminology conflict with the HTML 5 media elements. The > term 'media' is already rather overloaded. > > I suggest that the 'media' property on AbstractView be changed to make > such conflicts less likely. Perhaps using 'css' in the name would help. We could make the attribute replaceable I suppose. Would that work? Media Queries are independent of CSS (see e.g. their use in the HTML5 media elements; specifically, source ;-)) so I would rather not use CSS in the name. I haven't really thought of anything better than just media so far. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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