On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote:

>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschu...@adobe.com> wrote:
>> Then we should face it. Prefixed content for CSS gradients, animation, 
>> transition, transforms, CSS Image functions, masking and a lot more will not 
>> go away. This basically means we will need to support them for an 
>> undetermined period of time, possibly for the projects lifetime. This will 
>> be the same for every popular prefixed feature that we introduce in the 
>> future.
>> 
>> If we are honest about this we may can prevent future content to be a burden 
>> on maintenance and use similar concepts as Mozilla does with runtime flags 
>> on unprefixed features.
> 
> This is why we need to be extremely careful when introducing new features. 

I absolutely agree.  Chrome introduced the runtime flags as one possible 
solution for this problem.

Greetings,
Dirk

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