Re: vendor prefixes considered harmful (was: vendor prefix properties diverging from official properties)

On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Daniel Glazman wrote:

> I find rather hilarious - and a shame at the same time - that HTML5
> elements and attributes are implemented as is w/o vendor prefix even
> if the document is only a WD while we still require differenciated
> vendor prefixes for CSS until CR that are a huge burden on web authors.
> The last case is the placeholder attribute on html input fields,
> recently implemented in Gecko and already implemented long ago as is in
> Webkit.

Oy. When did that happen? I currently have to do server-level browser detection to give different CSS to webkit than the others in order to take advantage of 'placeholder'.