- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:17:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brad Fults <bfults@gmail.com>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>, "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Brad Fults wrote: > > In case you didn't pick up on it, that example was modeled largely after > the various |opacity| implementations. So this assumption isn't a very > far stretch, as it has already happened in the past. Opacity is a great example of why vendor prefixes are important. Opacity was implemented differently in each experimental implementation before the specification was written, and if the UAs had all use 'opacity' as the property name, the CSS working group would have been unable to take the experience of those implementations into account in designing the real feature. (Or, would have been forced to call it something else.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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