- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:00:33 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
[Tab Atkins Jr.:] > > 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. > Precisely: it is unrelated hence the importance of not using a convention that is already familiar to many as a vendor extension mechanism. In other words, the main argument given for using x- at the time it was proposed was that it looked like the IETF's X-. Given that this use-case is unrelated and the IETF is phasing out X- I find the risk of confusion wholly unnecessary. It's not like there is a shortage of other options.
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