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You can have pre-standard implementations without vendor prefixes. Here's an argument against them:

    http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/03/css_vendor_pref.html
And here's some further discussion:

    http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/03/css_vendor_pref_1.html
Personally I think vendor prefixes are an awful hack. We've already got browser-conditional comments in HTML, why not use them? Hell, browser-specific stylesheets would be a better option from where I'm sitting.


>> We've already got browser-conditional comments in HTML

You mean the `conditional statements` introduced and only used by IE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment


Yep. It's a better plan than vendor prefixes.

Edited to clarify: I mean that browser-conditional comments should be implemented across browsers, not that we should rely on features already implemented.




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