- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:33:01 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: > [François REMY:] >> If you correctly remember, I was proposing the 'x' prefix beforehand but >>Sylvain said he didn't like it, which is why I did all this research in >>first place. If we can agree on the 'x' prefix, I would not mind at all. > > That someone does not like something is irrelevant; why they don't is all > that matters. In this case, the x- prefixed was modeled after the IETF's > X- prefix which the IETF is phasing out. I don't think we should use > patterns others are getting rid of for good reasons, so I objected. That's quite unrelated, though. The x- prefix is being phased out by the IETF because it was used like a vendor prefix, except for all vendors, which means that it got stuck on the web even more often than -webkit-. The proposed use of x- as the variables prefix is much closer to the use in Web Components, as Francois points out, where it's just a way to land-grab some cheap syntax space that we can reasonably promise we won't need to use in the future. ~TJ
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