- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:53:36 +0200
- To: "Florian Rivoal" <florian@rivoal.net>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: "Lucas Wiener" <lucas@wiener.se>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 06 May 2015 17:18:39 +0200, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Florian Rivoal wrote: > > > > Do you perhaps have any sources that states that MQ was designed > with min/max-width due to that, and that >=/<= is really preferred? > > > > >=/<= is new. It could have been introduced a long time ago, > > but it wasn't > > Actually, the first MQ draft used <>: > > http://people.opera.com/howcome/2000/css3/media-oct-23.html > > An objection was quickly raised: > > | All the HTML examples are invalid since the ampersand character must > | be escaped (&). Solution: either that's ok, or we use the word > | 'and' or the symbol '+'. Similarly with the '<' and '>' symbols. And this was actually technically wrong. It was perfectly valid to use < and > inside attribute values in HTML4. It was also valid to use a lone ampersand, if the next character was not a name-start character. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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