Yay! (I agree that it's sad that we need to do this, but still "yay" for being more compatible with the web).
/ Jonas On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Summary: > A good chunk of the web today (and particularly the mobile web) > effectively relies on -webkit prefixed CSS properties & features. We > wish we lived in a world where web content always included > standards-based fallback (or at least multiple-vendor-prefixed > fallback), but alas, we do not live in that world. To be successful at > rendering the web as it exists, we need to add support for a list of > frequently-used -webkit prefixed CSS properties & features. > Every other major modern browser engine implements support for these > aliases -- Blink & WebKit obviously have them, & Edge includes them for > compatibility. (I'm not sure about IE's support, but it's not a > particularly important data point, given that Microsoft is focused on > Edge going forward.) > > Bug tracking implementation: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170789 > > Bug to enable pref: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143147 > (Will likely land in the next few days.) > > Link to standard: > Mike Taylor is working on a WHATWG spec describing the -webkit > prefixed features that we believe are needed for web compatibility. > That spec lives here: http://compat.spec.whatwg.org/ > There's also been some discussion on the CSSWG mailing list about > updating official CSS specs to mention legacy -webkit aliases (and > discourage authors from using them), as discussed in this thread: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Dec/0132.html > > Platform coverage: > All platforms. > > Estimated or target release: > Firefox 46 (current Nightly), or 47 if we need to hold it back a > release to fix things. > > Preference behind which this will be implemented: > layout.css.prefixes.webkit > > Side note on earlier work: > Earlier this year, in bug 1107378, we shipped an experimental JS-based > version of this feature, which was only active for a whitelist of sites > (all of which strongly depend on webkit prefixes for usability). This > experiment proved successful at making the whitelisted sites usable in > Firefox. The new implementation (behind "layout.css.prefixes.webkit") > will supersede the older experimental JS-based implementation and will > not be whitelisted. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
