- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:44:12 +0000
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- CC: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
That it would only be confusing to less than a majority is a poor argument. And though I have no interest in hypothetical gambling I know plenty of perfectly regular web folk who, even though they don't connect 'X-' with the IETF organization proper are perfectly familiar with this pattern from configuring their own mail server or doing some internet mail processing. While the origin and history may be more arcane I do not believe the convention is specialized knowledge at all. Last, fwiw, while I am generally fine in principle with keeping things short I do consider arguing 1-char vs. 2- or 3-character prefixes a complete waste of time; if only because a massive and growing number of people seem obviously happy to type -webkit- all over the bloody place without ever complaining how much painfully longer than -ms or -o it really is. Never mind that this prefix is to be used at definition time i.e. for a given variable most of the typing will involve unprefixed references. I therefore propose -bikeshed-.
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