[webkit-dev] About unprefixing CSS Grid Layout (implementation status summary included)

Dean Jackson dino at apple.com
Fri Apr 29 15:17:31 PDT 2016


> On 28 Apr 2016, at 4:28 AM, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> On 27/04/16 17:59, Simon Fraser wrote:
>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Manuel Rego Casasnovas <rego at igalia.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> as announced yesterday it seems that the WebKit prefixing policy has
>>> been updated [1].
>>> 
>>> Right now CSS Grid Layout implementation is prefixed in WebKit and
>>> behind a compilation flag.
>>> We'd like to ask about the possibility to unprefix it and put it behind
>>> a runtime flag (probably removing the compilation flag too).
>> 
>> I approve of this proposal.
>> 
>> Simon
> 
> Awesome. We'll unprefix it ASAP (adding the runtime flag and removing
> the build one).

Please leave the build flag around. We probably need a bigger discussion
on this, but for now we should have both a runtime flag and a build flag
just in case a browser ships and doesn't want the feature compiled at all
(reducing binary size).

Dean



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