Comments on: In Defense of Vendor Prefixes

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:00:08 +0000

Honestly you could probably say the most random craziest thing and people would agree with you. Because people trust you. You are are the best of the best. A lot of people don’t think for themselves. You have a lot of influence on today’s standards and practices and people know it. Some follow blindly.

But, you are trusted for a reason. You’ve not yet lead us astray.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:02:19 +0000

To be honest, I sort of wish every property could have a vender specific prefix, not just the in progress ones.

Every now and then, for reasons you can’t figure, you need to get Webkit to have a different line height than other browsers, or Firefox needs a different width, or IE needs a different margin and you just wish you could:
p { line-height: 22px; -webkit-line-height: 24px; }

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:01:05 +0000

Any predictions for how browsers can prefix CSS3 features that aren’t properties like -moz-border-radius? I’ve seen on css3.info that Firefox 4 will bring -moz-calc() which is cool, but I wonder how one would prefix, say, the new “rem” unit (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#relative).

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:36:30 +0000

“it’s actually that I merely articulated what most people had already instinctively decided for themselves.”

True for me. Glad someone with your standing brought it to the fore. I only hope implementors reach a consensus on best-practice for prefixes. Like any system, predictability and consistency are key.

By: Miles

Miles — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:58:51 +0000

The prefixes are intentional, its as simple as that. Which means we can make them what we want them to be.

It becomes a win-win for authors that want a way to “filter” for different browsers and their capabilities, and its a way for vendors that want to test something and see what works and get feedback.

By: Michael C.

Michael C. — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:14:19 +0000

Indeed, and I think that anyone “advanced” enough in CSS to be aware of vendor prefixes is most likely someone who also went through /* the pai\n of “\”}\”" various @hacks \*/.

By: Stephanie Hobson

Stephanie Hobson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:51:34 +0000

The annoyance factor of prefixes is less than the annoyance factor of hacks ;)