Vendor bloody prefixes
As you may have noticed, Opera announced an experimental Labs build supporting a handful of -webkit- vendor prefixes, based on an idea originally suggested by Daniel Glazman, CSS Working Group co-chair:
The rule should be this one: if the CSS parser encounters a prefixed property for another browser, honour that property as if it were prefixed for us UNLESS an unprefixed or prefixed for us valid declaration for that property was already set. That would drastically reduce the problems on the Web.
Here are some of the most useful commentaries (both for and against). Mostly I haven’t commented, except for Andy Clark’s piece which contained factual inaccuracies which could mislead readers.
Opera, -webkit-, and the purpose of browsers: “The secret to reaching “Acceptance” is to simply ask yourself, “What are web browsers for? What is their absolute primary purpose? The answer: A web browser’s primary function is to display web content.”
My favourite commentary has been Daniel Davis‘ interview with Dr Stanley Dards, wise old man of the web:
Mobile
- How we use our mobile devices “more people have mobile phone subscriptions than have electricity or safe drinking water”
- Reponsive News – a blog by the team making the BBC News website responsive
Web journey complete, FT switching off iOS app
IBM goes after mobile developers with a single platform for IOS and Android
HTML, CSS
- Cross-Browser Debugging CSS – super article by Nicole Sullivan.
Cookies, JSON, localStorage & Opera by Ian Devlin
Spot the difference!
An exciting competition for readers. Can you spot the difference between these two articles?
Two years ago, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer wrote:
Today, intellectual property rights for H.264 are broadly available through a well-defined program managed by MPEG LA. The rights to other codecs are often less clear, as has been described in the press. Of course, developers can rely on the H.264 codec and hardware acceleration support of the underlying operating system, like Windows 7, without paying any additional royalty.
This week, the BBC reports Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany – also Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player:
It follows a ruling that Microsoft had infringed two patents necessary to offer H.264 video coding and playback.
Opera
For the sake of open-ness, here’s a link to Opera’s 2011 annual report (Giant PDF!).
There is no truth in alleged “leaked emails” that our business plan reads 1) Publish photos of loads of multi-ethnic hipsters in glossy report 2) alias -webkit- prefixes 3) profit!
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