Re: [mediaqueries] Trying to understand the syntax design

Okay, thanks.

Kind regards,
Lucas Wiener

tis 5 maj 2015 kl 10:41 skrev Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>:

>
> > On 05 May 2015, at 10:25, Lucas Wiener <lucas@wiener.se> wrote:
> > tis 5 maj 2015 kl 09:41 skrev Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>:
> >
> >> On 05 May 2015, at 08:59, Lucas Wiener <lucas@wiener.se> wrote:
> >>
> >> Okay thank you both for the explanation.
> >>
> >> Do you know if there are any sources that I could cite regarding this?
> >
> > The 1996 REC for CSS1 says:
> >
> > "old UAs will ignore the 'STYLE' element, but its content will be
> > treated as part of the document body, and rendered as such.
> > During a transition phase, 'STYLE' element content may be
> > hidden using SGML comments"
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217#containment-in-html
> >
> > If it was only a problem with UAs considered old in 1996, I think
> > it's fair to say we should be safe by now :)Thanks!
> >
> > Indeed.
> > 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, so for now, you should stick with min- max- if
> you actually expect things to work. Once they get broad support,
> both syntaxes will be supported forever, so which is preferred
> is up to you, depending on what you think is more readable.
> Most people would prefer >=/<=, but that's really up to you.
>
> As for sources, I'm sure there's some old mails somewhere
> discussing this, but I am not sure where they are.
>
>  - Florian