- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 01:17:38 +0200
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* L. David Baron wrote: >When implementors are implementing experimental properties that have >already been implemented by other vendors, should they copy vendor >prefixes from each other, or not? So far the Working Group has taken the position that identifiers with vendor prefixes should not be used in the wild; that is why using them is prohibited in valid style sheets and discouraged in general. Your question assumes there is good cause for authors to ignore that, which would really be a symptom of some other problem, which should be fixed instead. Usually the sharing of extension prefixes leads implementers to disre- gard proper documentation and standardisation practises; I submit the "x-dns-prefetch-control" header as recent evidence. Making proprietary extensions barely tolerable seeks to avoid that, while still allowing for the few positive effects they have. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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