- From: Greg Whitworth <gwhit@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:23:56 +0000
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
> MQ4 states: > "User agents should re-evaluate media queries in response to changes in the user environment" > MQ3 has the same, phrased differently. > I believe this was intentional, but I cannot think of any good reason for using should rather than must in this sentence, and would like to change. >The only two reasons I can think of are: >1) If we write MUST, this will delay MQ3 getting to REC > If that's the case, this is no longer relevant, and we can use must > 2) We want to allow some user agents to layout and render a static view of the page once, and then never touch it again (no relayout, no interaction, no javascript after the initial load...). >If that's what we want to do, we can carve out a specific exemption for such UAs, without allowing normal interactive browsers to fail to update their media queries when something changes. I think this would be best to stay as 'SHOULD' as that implies your desired end result while keeping us from forcing a 'MUST' on all current or future MQs. I think if you want to be more explicit than this, then each MQ evaluation type should be listed and whether or not they 'SHOULD' or 'MUST' be re-evaluated on environment change. Greg
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