Google recently announced that it will be switching Chrome's rendering engine to a fork of Webkit, called “Blink”. If you're interested, you can read their blog post about Blink . One of the changes we will be seeing in Blink, is the use of browser flags in place of vendor prefixes . What this means, is that rather than prefixing experimental CSS with -webkit-, -moz-, -ms-, -o-, -khtml-, etc.; We will be required to enable these attributes using a flag in the browser (like the ones currently at chrome://flags). If you ask me, both ways have their advantages and disadvantages. Though, in the end, I lean towards the flags over the vendor prefixes, and here's why: #1 Code Bloat On average, using CSS with vendor prefixes requires writing it 5 times . Every time you use it . #2 Future Friendly Eventually, prefixed code will be replaced by the unprefixed code. #3 Browser Dev Friendly Browsers tend to continue to support the prefixed code, even if it doesn'
Lessons learned and interesting tidbits from my adventures in web development