- From: Andi Sidwell <andi@takkaria.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:39:38 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
fantasai wrote: > Andi Sidwell wrote: [snip rationale] >> As a result, it would be good if the spec was changed to either remove >> device-*, or define when as equivalent to their non-device-* >> counterparts for backwards-compat. > > I'm not convinced we should do that, but perhaps the spec can include a note > explaining that in most cases, authors should be avoiding the device-* > features unless they really need to query the device for something. Tutorials > on Media Queries should either leave out the device-* queries (and let people > who really need them look them up elsewhere), or mention them along with a > warning that they should not be used in the general case. I've had a dig through the mail archives, and I don't seem to be able to find any reasons why accessing the device-* queries would ever be useful (or any justification for their addition). I notice this happened in the 2002 draft, so I guess it was before the CSSWG moved into public. Any pointers as to what the benefits are? In any case, I think that including a marker in the spec and hoping for the best isn't really going to help anyone here. -- Andi Sidwell
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