- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:56:35 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com>
- Cc: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth.r.christiansen@intel.com>, "florian@rivoal.net" <florian@rivoal.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com> wrote: >>Tab suggests we need some way to declare the resolution, or channel >>count, of the media to the UA, but that would move the responsibility for >>deciding how to match media properties with physical properties from the >>user to the UA: a different distribution of responsibility from selection >>based on media queries. Why should these particular properties (physical >>resolution, audio output channels) be treated differently from others >>(color depth, aspect ratio, etc.) ? > > Sorry, I don't follow the distribution of responsibility argument at all. > I - and, I think, Tab - is suggesting media queries pick the right source > so you then know what stream you need. I've commented on both sides of this - I don't particularly care whether it's done by a MQ selecting the number of output channels, or a declaration of the number of output channels that your source has. The two are functionally equivalent, though one or the other may be more convenient. ~TJ
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