Re: [lots] -webkit prefixed properties and values

> On 11 Dec 2015, at 05:07, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> * I'd rather the spec mark these features as deprecated/discouraged.

Isn't that what are are suggesting: specify and deprecate means browsers must support (which they do), AND authors must not use.

> * For simplicity/code-sharing, Mozilla's emulation of this prefixed
> feature (in Nightly, preffed off) works by converting it to a
> hopefully-similar modern radial-gradient() expression. We choose the
> smaller of the two circles that the author provided, and we pretend that
> smaller circle is just a point at the center of the larger circle.
> Then, we create a modern radial-gradient() expression to represent that
> result. This seems to be "good enough" for usability, on the sites that
> we've seen which depend on this feature.

If that's web compatible, I have no objection to the spec being written in a way that allows that. I don't see an issue specifying it something like this:
- The syntax is [...]
- UAs should do [canonical safari behavior]
- UAs may also do [simplified behavior known (thanks for mozilla trying it) to be web compatible]

/Florian

Received on Friday, 11 December 2015 03:31:34 UTC