On May 13, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > On 5/13/12 3:20 PM, Mathew Marquis wrote: >> I doubt any UAs will be forced to misinterpret common media queries because >> they haven’t been accounted for. > > Opera has already been forced to do this. For example, in its projection > mode it matches both the "projection" and "screen" media queries (technically > a spec violation) because of all the sites that explicitly say "screen" when > they really mean "not print" (or in the absence of that query in downrev UAs > when they mean "screen, projection, tv"). Now of course part of the problem > here is that "screen", "projection", and "tv" are mutually exclusive, which > is in retrospect silly. > > This is an excellent example of the fundamental divide about optimism vs > pessimism here: the things that web authors doubt UA vendors will be forced > to do because of web authors making bogus assumptions are things that UA > vendors have already been forced to do for years because web authors ... make > bogus assumptions. > > -Boris
You make an excellent case for standards bodies working more closely with developers during the implementation of things like media queries. With a better sense of the ways developers might misuse, misinterpret, or fail to understand standards, issues like you describe could potentially be better avoided. But I suppose we’ve gone off-topic, to an extent.
