RE: Vendor Prefixes and Generic Prefixes: who shall use which when and why? from Brian Manthos on 2012-02-07 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)

From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:50:04 +0000
To: Mark Ayers <markthema3@gmail.com>, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9710FCC2E88860489239BE0308AC5D170EB54DC1@TK5EX14MBXC266.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

Mark Ayers:
> 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. 

Without dates or versions, even -WD- becomes incompatible every month (sometimes faster).  So that doesn't solve the issue.

I concur it helps though.

Received on Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:57:23 UTC