I disagree. In my own area of development things are only getting more complicated. Will MQs evolve and become more complex? Yes. May other means of accomplishing the same thing come to pass? Wouldn't surprise me. Will pages be nothing but single-columns of text broken occasionally by an svg image? Hardly. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:59 PM Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh composed on 2015-02-15 14:41 (UTC-0700): > > > As the resolution of cell phones rapidly escalates I find myself > wondering > > how much longer media queries can be useful. Phones will soon have the > > same nominal resolution as desktop monitors, and yet still be tiny by > > physical comparison. > > > Aren't media queries, as they now are a flawed system, > > Yes. > > > heading for a high speed > > . > > > crash? > > Yes > > > Or do I misunderstand how this works? > > Media queries are a band-aid solution to an artificial and needless > problem. > > > If so--if a technology change is indeed looming--will CSS be part of the > > ultimate solution? > > Most of the technology has long been in place, in the form of relative > units. > Their primary shortcoming is WRT background images. There is usually no > compulsion to use background images, making that shortcoming rather > inconsequential. > > IOW, divorce your mind from the existence of px units for all screen media > use other than bitmap images, and you get automatic adaptation to display > density, rather like life before CSS1 arrived. > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
