[whatwg] media types

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 21 16:47:48 PDT 2004


On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Mark Schenk wrote:
>
> For certain types of webapplications it would be very useful to know the 
> medium on which the document is being displayed, e.g. projection, 
> handheld, etc. Currently it is not possible to determine this easily 
> with scripting.
> 
> Therefor I would like to suggest a read-only "window.medium" set to a 
> media type ("screen" | "print" | "projection" | "tv" | "handheld" | 
> "speech" etc).

window.mediaMode

http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#mediamode

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