Re: W3C discussion of CSS prefixes

On 5/20/2012 7:04 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:
> And how to help those authors migrate from non-standard to standard once
> the standard is done*IS*  in scope.

Strong +1.

> CSS has unique features which make the extensibility/fallback story with
> prefixes more tractable (cascading, lower impact of failure), but I
> think if we can really document its extensibility story, the lessons
> might help with other areas of web & protocol evolution.

Exactly. For precisely the reasons Larry lists, CSS is a much easier space 
in which to make some progress than, e.g., XML namespaces.

Noah

Received on Monday, 21 May 2012 02:45:20 UTC