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February 9 2012

If these properties are so well implemented and so useful to the mobile Web, they became de facto standards ; let’s turn them as soon as possible into de jure standards through W3C standardization.

Hear hear!

I am also calling Apple and Google to remove support for the “experimental” versions of a property when the final one is implemented and shipped.

Good luck with that.

  1. It’s OK for new websites (using only new standards) to not work on my old phone (that only supports the vendor prefix)
  2. It’s not OK for old websites (using vendor prefixes) to stop working when I upgrade my phone (to a new model that only supports the new standard)

Thinking that we have technical solutions to #2 is to ignore the realities of long term web development in large organizations (think public universities) and the realities of the mobile phone world (look at the wide variation in Android versions in widespread use).

(Source: glazman.org)