- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:19:18 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 13/11/13 00:17, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.: > > > Media Queries currently states that it purposely went with the > > min/max- prefix approach for range-type queries specifically to avoid > > any issues with the "<" character in HTML/XML syntax. > > Yes, we were forced to use the contrived min/max syntax due to > SGML/XML. If I recall correctly, only "<" was technically banned. > > > Instead, I propose we add another syntax possibility to MQs: > > > > (width < 400px) > > (device-height > 1000px) > > This is much better. This is not only better. This is _finally_ the original MQ syntax [1] that we were forced to forget [2] and move to min-/max- [3]. Yes, I am the guilty one for suggesting this but we had no other choice at that time. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-mediaqueries-20010404/ [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2000OctDec/0083.html [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2000OctDec/0086.html </Daniel>
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