Re: Unprefixing CSS properties

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>wrote:


> If it’s not ready to CR, it’s not ready to unprefix.  I thought that was
> the general working model of the CSSWG.
>

Yes. I'm suggesting a change to that model.

That might mean moving the “not ready” parts to “next” (3 to 4, 4 to 5,
> etc.) so they don’t hold up the “ready” parts.  It might mean splitting
> modules into smaller pieces as well.
>

Those are good things to do as well.

 Sidestepping the system because it’s inconvenient produces harm in the
> near term and long term as well as potentially the really long term
> (box-model width example).
>

In that case, I think a lot less harm would have been incurred for everyone
if we had simply made box-sizing:border-box the default.

I think in cases where authors are already widely producing content using
the unprefixed property and assuming that the behavior will match the
behavior of the vendor-prefixed properties, "sidestepping the system" can't
produce any new harm, and it will reduce other harm.

Even if authors aren't using the unprefixed property widely, if the
behavior is clear and uncontroversial then the harm of unprefixing should
be minimal.

Just skimming some of the others...****
>
> **·         **transitions – the timing function property has an expanded
> grammar in ED relative to WD****
>
> **·         **animations – the timing function property has an expanded
> grammar in ED relative to WD
>

Those are totally OK since the changes are backwards compatible.


> ****
>
> **·         **images – significant grammar changes proposed for
> radial-gradient; variety of changes in other sections
>

I deliberately excluded gradients.

Rob
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