Re: Vendor Prefixes and Generic Prefixes: who shall use which when and why?

I really like the -wd- -ed- etc etc etc prefixes, this *should* help MS
keep their bug compatibility while allowing them to progress with the newer
implementations. It would also help with multiple repetitions of the same
thing with different prefixes, though I suppose it could potentially make
that problem worse.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On 2/7/12 8:58 AM, Christoph Päper wrote:
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>>>  dbaron: The more we can unprefix, perhaps the less we have this problem.
>>>>  tantek: One possible proposal is to only parse other vendors' prefixes
>>>> in
>>>>          conjunction with parsing unprefixed.
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>>> That’s a minimum requirement. Anything less should not even be
>>> considered for discussion.
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>> The only way to do that is to change the unprefixing policy of this
>> working group and unprefix a whole bunch of things right now.
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> i'm not sure if IPR issues have yet been discussed in this context, but i
> believe we can't simply standardize currently prefixed properties without
> first introducing them into scope of the WG according to W3C IPR practices
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> of course, if the prefixed version matches (without modification)
> preliminary specifications already developed within WG scope, then this
> would not be a barrier
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> please correct me if i have the wrong impression
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