>We hope this will make it much easier to develop vendor-specific features.
DRM[1]? Flash/"ActiveX 2012"[2]?
We've seen a great deal of recent discussion about the harm vendor-specific CSS properties[3] and X- prefixed application protocol header fields[4] are causing. No two parties can agree on proposals for the HTML specification. Microsoft, Google, Apple and Mozilla all tend to disagree and we're stuck with vendor-specific browser features.
These are not good signs for the health of the Web.
DRM[1]? Flash/"ActiveX 2012"[2]?
We've seen a great deal of recent discussion about the harm vendor-specific CSS properties[3] and X- prefixed application protocol header fields[4] are causing. No two parties can agree on proposals for the HTML specification. Microsoft, Google, Apple and Mozilla all tend to disagree and we're stuck with vendor-specific browser features.
These are not good signs for the health of the Web.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620432
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620537
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0998.h...
[4] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-03