[webkit-dev] Updated https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/DeprecatingFeatures (was Re: Removing the prefix from webkitPostMessage)

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Sep 21, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, "obligation" is probably too loaded a word.  Here's some updated text:
> 
> [[
> * Standards citizenship. Many W3C working groups, including the CSS
> working group, ​request that implementors remove support for vendor
> prefixed features once the specifications of the features reach a
> certain level of maturity, typically Candidate Recommendation. To be
> good citizens of these standards bodies, we should make an effort to
> remove vendor prefixes, even if doing so would incur a larger
> compatibility cost than we would otherwise prefer.
> ]]


Looks good. I checked the reference on the "​request that implementors remove support for vendor prefixed features" link, which points to <http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/vendor-prefixes>. It looks like that document does not exeactly support the claim made - it seems to contain proposed but not yet agreed upon guidance:

    Simple straw proposal guidance.

at least some of which is explicitly marked as disputed, e.g.:

    * SHOULD NOT retain older, incompatible implementations with vendor-specific prefix
        * disputed, see also Transitions section

I'm not familiar with this document, so perhaps it's out of date. But in any case, I suggest either softening the claim used to cite it to match what it says, or using a better reference.

The impression I got is that the CSS WG is considering making a request that implementors remove support for vendor prefixed features and perhaps even is likely to, but hasn't quite done so yet.

Regards,
Maciej

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