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[cssom-view] [css-viewport] Deprecate/Find a better name for the term “Layout Viewport” #8237

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@bramus

As a follow-up to Interop2022’s Viewport Investigation Effort, I’m filing this issue that came up.

The gist of issue web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport#25 is that:

  • The term “the viewport” is a term that is specced in the CSS2 spec
  • The term “the viewport” can be confusing as there are several viewports (e.g. the visual viewport)
  • The term “layout viewport” is often as an alternative, but the term is not really defined
  • Defining the term “layout viewport” could be an option, but its name not indicative of what it does. It’s more of a “position fixed viewport“, while the ICB actually affects layout.

During the discussions we wondered if the term “layout viewport” could be deprecated and/or if we could come up with a better name than just “the viewport”.

Some alternative terms that were suggested in the original issue:

  • document viewport
  • scroll viewport
  • frame viewport
  • canvas viewport
  • main viewport
  • root viewport

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