On Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote:
> > > screen_size: This object may contain the min_height and min_width
> > > properties that describe the minimum height and width (in pixels) the
> > > application needs in order to render correctly. Interpretation of these
> > > values is left up to the runtime and/or app store.
> >
> >
> >
> > How does this play with CSS and media queries in particular? What's the use
> > case?
>
> These values do not interfere with runtime detection via media queries.
> The use case for these values is two-fold:
> - An app store may prevent the user from installing an app on a device
> which doesn't meet this criteria
> - A UA may prevent the user from launching an app on a device which
> doesn't meet this criteria
>
> The primary goal in both cases is to let the developer declare what
> screen sizes their app is known to work correctly.
The above cases seems very "anti-web" IMHO. I thought we had stopped the whole
designing for particular screen sizes, etc. a long time ago. I feel it would be
a shame to codify this in a spec.
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