- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 15:29:40 -0700
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: Lucas Wiener <lucas@wiener.se>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2015, at 14:11, Lucas Wiener <lucas@wiener.se> wrote:
>> I'm trying to understand the reasons for the syntax design of media queries.
>> Are there any reasons why media queries are written "@media (min-width:
>> 500px) { … }" instead of "@media (width >= 500px) { … }"?
>
> Legacy. The min- and max- syntax were what was introduced way back, chiefly
> (I believe, that's before my time) due to compat concerns of using the
> < (and >) characters inside html.
Yup. It's from *way* back when, when you had to do the:
<style>
<!--
styles here
-->
</style>
trick to keep some legacy browsers from displaying your stylesheet as
text. It's been irrelevant for over a decade, which is why we finally
added the originally-desired syntax to MQ4. ^_^
~TJ
Received on Monday, 4 May 2015 22:30:27 UTC