Current Media Queries support in Firefox

Well, at time of writing support is non existent even in the latest nightlies (3.0b5pre), which to me is a slight bit surprising since both Opera and Safari have supported Media Queries for while now. I guess the main push behind module support for both Opera and Safari was to ease web development for their mobile/handheld browsers.

However, what with Mozilla planning a full scale drive into the mobile browser market soon with the release of , it’s crucial that module support is included. Judging by the relevant bug ticket, it looks as though there’s not much going on; David Baron’s last entry was in November 2006 simply stating that support is WIP- perhaps I’m missing something?!

Unfortunately there were several open issues regarding Media Queries including parsing expectations and general deliberating among members of the WG which prevented the module appearing in the ‘07 Snapshot, however it’s near certain to be in this years version.

It’s no surprise that Media Queries support is required to pass Acid 3, so FF could kill two birds with one stone – gain an additional point (to add to their 71) and allow developers to take advantages of this cool module.

If you asked me a year or so ago whether IE would actually implement a module before FF, I would have laughed my head off, but now it doesn’t look so clear cut. OK, perhaps I’m being a bit extreme saying that….