Re: [whatwg] Use of media queries to limit bandwidth/data transfer

[James Graham]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

On 12/8/11 3:56 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
Remember that widths refer to the
browser window, not the monitor

For the 'width' and 'height' media queries, yes.

For the 'device-width' and 'device-height' media queries, no.

It's not clear that device-width and device-height should be encouraged 
since they don't tell you anything about how much content area is 
*actually* visible to the user.