- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 12:20:38 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
(not quoting a so long message) Florian, I think your proposal has one flaw only but that's a pretty big one... We introduced prefixes originally to be able to have preview implementations potentially differing from the final spec and implementations. Prefixes were supposed to allow vendors to start implementing, test, discover issues and hence feed the standardization process. If preview implementations are aliased without prefix, they will be adopted by web authors, and sometimes _widely_. Some browser vendors said they just cannot let web sites suddenly become broken when an implementation changes following spec changes. That concern remains. If property A is implemented prefixed AND unprefixed at date d, and the spec for that property changes at date d+1, how will vendors update their implementation AND preserve sites implementing date d's draft from breakage? </Daniel>
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