CSS "update" media feature

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 113)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Chromium flag: CSSUpdateMediaFeature
Spec maturity: Working draft
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/css/mediaqueries/update-media-feature.html

Summary

Implements "update" media feature. Allows to distinguish styles for print, slow and fast output displays: print - for documents on the paper; slow - for e-ink and underpowered displays; fast - regular computer displays.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/#descdef-media-update
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791028

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=css%2Fmediaqueries
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+CSS%20%22update%22%20media%20feature
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=CSS%20%22update%22%20media%20feature
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=CSS%20%22update%22%20media%20feature

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