W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > www-validator-css@w3.org > July 2010

Re: Vendor-specific extensions: warnings, not errors

From: olivier Thereaux <ot@artbeat.me>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:09:42 -0400
Cc: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>, www-validator-css@w3.org
Message-Id: <7776FD6D-7511-4DB4-AEFF-B5E08255DFA0@artbeat.me>
To: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com> 

On 2010-06-28, at 12:04 AM, Jens O. Meiert wrote:
> Why wouldn’t a warning, clearly stating that “vendor-specific
> extensions got found and have only been checked for syntactic
> correctness”, mean a viable alternative? From my perspective it does,
> and means a win for everyone involved.

Given how, lately at least, vendor-prefixed extensions seem to be used mostly as a cross-compatibility tool and very rarely for proprietary extensions, this looks like a good idea indeed.

-- 
olivier
Received on Friday, 2 July 2010 12:10:14 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:14:26 GMT