-webkit isn’t breaking the web. The W3C is.

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15 points·rodreegez··6 comments

1000 times this. the major browser vendors should get together and make specs. there is no need for a middle-man. there can be an incubation period of maybe a year at most where public opinion polls are held for the various options being considered in an open forum so that developer input from the community can be considered.

it's obvious the standardization process needs a major overhaul when vendors are forced to consider adopting OTHER vendor's proprietary standards.

The problem with this is that the devil is in the details. The w3c should move faster and adopt the webkit prefix right away? Now suddenly anyone who isn't supporting it is non-compliant. It's not a decision to be taken lightly.

Surely there is some middle ground between your straw-man and taking 13 years to finalize a spec.

I also thinking the same thing. Why there are prefixes in the first place?

To allow vendors to implement them and developers to use the appropriate implementation. For example:

-moz-border-radius-bottomright:1em;

-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:1em;

What would be the alternative? You couldn't only do border-radius-bottomright: 1em, because that wouldn't work in webkit. Nor would you want to force the vendors to check with each other first before implementing features, because that would slow down progress and make it slightly more difficult for new open source browsers to get started.

Got the point :) Thanks for the explanation

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