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> How exactly is this the fault of the webkit team? This mostly isn't their fault. The main problem is that if any single implementation becomes dominant, we g
by azakai 15y ago
> How exactly is this the fault of the webkit team?
This mostly isn't their fault. The main problem is that if any single implementation becomes dominant, we get these problems. And WebKit is dominant on mobile. For the browser market to be healthy again in mobile, we just need more diversity.
But there is also some blame on the WebKit browsers. If, seeing they were about to become dominant in mobile, they had stopped including experimental prefixed functionality in stable release versions, we would not have this problem. Prefixed stuff is not so bad in release versions if there is diversity in the market, but when the market is dominated, it becomes a mess.
- stephenr 15y agoSure, we should let the actions of lazy developers dictate the direction of web technologies. Based on this theory, MSIE should not have added new features to IE when it was dominant. This means no AJAX. Lazy developers caused this problem, and Mozilla/Opera are only going to make it worse by supporting the -webkit- prefixed properties.