Re: [css-flexbox] Syntax for maximum support

Ah. Thank you for letting me know.
Props to Mozilla for shifting away from vendor prefixing.

So, right now it ( non-prefix flexible box module current implementation )
is disabled, but can be enabled and soon will be enabled by default ?

+Irfan
On Mar 27, 2013 3:46 PM, "Daniel Holbert" <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:

> One correction: there's no need to use "-moz-" prefixing for any of the
> current-flexbox keywords & property-names.
>
> Mozilla has shifted away from vendor-prefixing, for a variety of
> reasons.  Instead, we're shipping work-in-progress CSS features
> unprefixed, but behind about:config prefs (which are disabled by default
> until the spec and implementation are sufficiently stable & complete).
>
> So: the "new" flexbox spec's keywords are all unprefixed in Mozilla
> code, though they're still disabled by default in our release builds.
> (But it should be enabled by default soon.[1])
>
> (Technically, we did actually ship one old release (Firefox 18) with
> *both* the pref and with prefixed flexbox keywords & properties -- but
> the number of users on that out-of-date release who've refused/disabled
> automatic updates and who've *also* manually toggled the flexbox-support
> pref should be extremely low -- likely zero.  That's the set of users
> you'd be targeting with -moz-prefixed new-flexbox keywords markup, and
> IMHO it's not worth it. :))
>
> ~Daniel
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841876
>
>
> On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, irfan mir wrote:
> > Hello CSS Working Group,
> >
> > I've been playing with flexbox recently now that the syntax is stable
> > and am just wondering if the syntax I used is proper for maximum
> > support. I would use a Javascript ployfill, but there isn't one for the
> > new syntax yet. So, in order to get maximum support, I am using the old
> > syntax and current syntax.
> >
> > Please correct me if I am doing anything wrong. I am trying to get
> > maximum support in all the browser that at some point supported some
> > version of the flexbox module.
> >
> >                 /*2009 syntax*/
> > display:-moz-box;
> > display:-ms-box;
> > display:-webkit-box;
> > display:box;
> > -webkit-box-orient:vertical;
> > /*current syntax*/
> > display:-moz-flex;
> > display:-ms-flex;
> > display:-webkit-flex;
> > display:flex;
> > -moz-flex-direction:column;
> > -ms-flex-direction:column;
> > -webkit-flex-direction:column;
> > flex-direction:column;
> >
> > Thanks in Advance & Best Regards,
> >                                          Irfan Mir.
>