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A settings.viewport pair that mixes units, such as "mobile": "30em" with "tablet": "580px", produces an empty @tablet media query for readers who change their browser's default font size, so the responsive styles and visibility rules bound to it silently stop applying.

sanitize_viewport_settings() orders the pair against a fixed 16px base, but the generated query keeps the original units, and a media query resolves em/rem against the reader's default font size instead. The patch removes tablet when it does not share an absolute or relative unit type with mobile, alongside the existing not-larger-than check.

em/rem pairs are kept, since a media query resolves both against the same base; same-unit and default pairs are unaffected.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65865

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A `settings.viewport` pair that mixes a relative `em`/`rem` breakpoint
with an absolute `px` one is ordered against a fixed 16px base, but the
generated media query keeps the original units. Because a media query
resolves `em` and `rem` against the browser's default font size, the
emitted `@tablet` range inverts into an empty range for readers who
change that default, silently dropping the responsive styles and
viewport visibility rules bound to it.

Remove `tablet` when it does not share an absolute or relative unit
type with `mobile`, alongside the existing check that removes it when
it is not larger than `mobile`. Pairs that mix `em` and `rem` are kept,
since a media query resolves both against the same base.

Fixes #65865.
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