- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 17:18:39 +0200
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: Lucas Wiener <lucas@wiener.se>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
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. To which I replied: | Can't we just change the parsing rules of HTML instead? Alas, we couldn't change the rules at the time (year 2000), but we are now more powerful :-) > As for sources, I'm sure there's some old mails somewhere > discussing this, but I am not sure where they are. For those with W3C member access, the discussion is here: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2000OctDec/0082.html -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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