On Monday, 30 January 2012 at 22:22, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:43 , Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> > Orientation lock is already part of the CSS Device Adaption spec as part of
> > the viewport meta tag
>
>
>
> Sorry, I should indeed have mentioned that as part of the background. The
> problem with specifying orientation as part of the viewport at rule is that
> it leads to circular dependencies (you can set an orientation inside a media
> query that changes the viewport and triggers and endless loop). The spec
> tries (meekly) to defend against that, but I find it difficult not to get the
> impression that this leads to a tangled mess and that it will confuse
> developers (it certainly confuses me when I try to make sense of the
> circularity avoidance recommendations made in the specification itself). This
> could be solved if it were only to appear in meta elements, but right now
> that's not the case and the section on meta elements in CSS DA isn't
> normative.
For fun, can you show how that happens with the meta tags? I was the one that
originally proposed the orientation locking using the meta tag, so I'm
interested to hear what happened (or send me pointer). Apologies that I have
not followed the discussion.
