This would be my first foray into mailing lists, so if I'm "doing it wrong", allow me to apologize.
With all of the attention being given to responsive design approaches, I could not help but wonder what will happen in as little as a few years. Smartphones will likely have resolutions that will either rival or supersede present-day laptop resolutions, so our approach of detecting screen resolution and/or pixel density will be useless as a means to detect form factor. What we need in a media query is the ability to detect a true form factor, a "device-type" if you will, something along the lines of the "handheld" query of HTML4 lore. We could potentially make an effort to revive the "handheld" query, along with a new "tablet" query as well, but I'm afraid that relying on browser implementation alone is risky. If there's a way to engage browsers in a way that gives them a disadvantage for _not_ implementing it, that may be preferable. I would love more discussion on this topic, and if I'm completely out of the loop on something that makes this a non-issue, I'd love to be enlightened. :) Thanks, -- Brian Irish
