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> The discussion spans 14 years. And this is basically why I hate the obstinacy of Mozilla. It is not difficult to find discussions that spans more than one d

by Aldo_MX 12y ago

> The discussion spans 14 years. And this is basically why I hate the obstinacy of Mozilla. It is not difficult to find discussions that spans more than one decade, where the official consensus is "web authors: get screwed, we would rather die than to add X feature". Yet, I will never understand why Mozilla decided to implement some -webkit-prefixes to Firefox not that long ago, since their arguments can be reused in any neverending bug report like this one. I'm against the webkit/blink monoculture that many web authors wished we had, but at this point I don't know what to expect. One part of me applauds whenever a new website (ex. Mega or WhatsApp Web) launches without support for Firefox at day one, because ignoring Firefox is the way Mozilla will eventually stop their obstinacy. But other part of me gets sad, because Firefox is the only feasible alternative the web has against webkit/blink, and the web can't afford to have a weak alternative against a monoculture. I can only hope IE/Spartan to become a feasible alternative, because I can't expect Mozilla to stop their obstinacy until they have no choice.

mmarx 12y ago
> It is not difficult to find discussions that spans more than one decade, where the official consensus is "web authors: get screwed, we would rather die than to add X feature". And yet, this doesn't appear to be the case here: > People, people. We already know what the solution is to be -- binding XBL to pseudo-elements. There is no point commenting here. We all know you want it. If you're not volunteering to fix it, please don't comment at all.[0] Rather, nobody seems to have stepped up to actually implement the feature for the past decade, wich isn't all that surprising since implementing this seems to be quite the effort: > (1) this is a pretty involved bug; it would take weeks to months of work for a full-time engineer[1] [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c125 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c125 [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c173 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c173

by Aldo_MX 12y ago

mmarx 12y ago

> It is not difficult to find discussions that spans more than one decade, where the official consensus is "web authors: get screwed, we would rather die than to add X feature". And yet, this doesn't appear to be the case here: > People, people. We already know what the solution is to be -- binding XBL to pseudo-elements. There is no point commenting here. We all know you want it. If you're not volunteering to fix it, please don't comment at all.[0] Rather, nobody seems to have stepped up to actually implement the feature for the past decade, wich isn't all that surprising since implementing this seems to be quite the effort: > (1) this is a pretty involved bug; it would take weeks to months of work for a full-time engineer[1] [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c125 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c125 [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c173 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c173