RE: CSS-4 and min|max-device-width

On Sunday, January 07, 2018 6:20 AM Henrik Andersson wrote:
> To: Alice Wonder; www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Re: CSS-4 and min|max-device-width
>
> So to summarize, you actually want a media query that determinates the viewport width while ignoring zooming. 
> Or in other words, you want the layout to remain locked down independently of the device zoom level.

I believe that having a media query that determines width while ignoring zoom level would also be a useful feature for CSS4 font-variation-settings property. If a website content is presented with a specific font variation feature set based on a particular width, you wouldn’t want that setting to be changing based on zoom level, and risk having the text content be re-rendered and reflow because of it. People often zoom in to make text easier to read, but you'd want to preserve the original layout at the same time.

Thanks,
Vlad