W3C Member Proposes "Fix" For CSS Prefix Problem

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 9, 2012 @01:35AM from the worse-is-better-is-a-terrible-way-to-love dept.

Pieroxy writes "The W3C is proposing a set of new rules for CSS prefixing by browser vendors. This would greatly mitigate the problem caused today where vendor specific prefixing is seeing its way through production sites. The problem is so bad that some vendors are now tempted to support other browsers' prefixing. The article also has a link to an email from Mozilla's Henri Sivonen that does a nice job of addressing many potential issues and shortcomings of this new proposal." I was under the impression that browser prefixes existed to allow use of experimental CSS features before standardization; just ditching the vendor prefix seems like a step backward.

1 of 144 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Here's another proposal: by orthancstone · 2012-05-09 01:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

Get the standard done. Browser vendors are not going to wait 20 years for you to make up your mind. The digital world moves too fast for policy to take too long. Proposed ideas are going through vigorous testing in the real world long before a finalized plan for that idea is set.