Re: Policy for one vendor using the vendor-prefix from another vendor?

On 5/11/10 3:03 PM, Simon Fraser wrote:
> I propose that the section on vendor prefixes here
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-syntax/#vendor-specific>
> should strongly discourage cross-vendor prefix usage.

That might conflict with discouraging anti-competitive behavior by 
vendors attempting content lock-in by advertising their prefixed 
properties widely.

Or put another way, if every single piece of mobile content (as 
determined by the sites involved, who sniff the UA string and assume 
that anything running on a mobile device gets a different site that they 
happened to design against the iPhone) out there just happens to require 
support for a -webkit- property to render correctly, then other UAs 
might find themselves forced to implement the same prefixes.

This isn't a hypothetical situation; there are some people advocating 
that Mozilla do the same thing with certain -webkit- properties on 
mobile, for exactly the reason I describe above.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:09:45 UTC