"Sure. However, many of us know how "temporary" code can mold into permanent code." Oh yes. Even before Opera aliased these thirteen webkit vendor prefixes its

"Sure. However, many of us know how "temporary" code can mold into permanent code." Oh yes. Even before Opera aliased these thirteen webkit vendor prefixes its pretty clear webkit cannot change how these specific prefixes work any more without breaking those developers who are working in a webkit-only state. It's past time for these specific vendor prefixes to be formally standardised, and in the interim, every non-webkit browser should now follow Opera's aliasing approach. There is one issue to be careful of, because these webkit prefixes are not formally part of a W3C specification process there could be issues around intellectual property and patents. That in particular worries me.