webkit moz and the like.

[dw08gm]

Not wishing to troll but seeking genuine developer insights - Are these css tricks really worth the while?

Thanks in advance

[gjh42]

Browser prefixes like -webkit- and -moz- are not CSS "tricks", but ways to use cutting-edge techniques that are not standardized and universally supported yet. With the wide implementation of CSS3 in modern browsers, they are far less necessary than they were only a couple of years ago. Any article from around 2011 or earlier will mention them in discussion of fancy styling techniques, but in most cases they can now be dropped in favor of the plain CSS standard property. Users of browsers other than IE tend to keep up to date and old instances of Chrome or Firefox are a small minority, while IE8 still has a measurable user base, and for some audiences, even older versions need to be supported.

[dw08gm]

Thanks Glenn

Your explanation nails it.

I was looking at some css code dated 2010-11 and was wondering why the basic code (that is, without the moz and webkit parts) worked fine within a css3 environment.

Cheers

[DivaVocals]

Browser prefixes like -webkit- and -moz- are not CSS "tricks", but ways to use cutting-edge techniques that are not standardized and universally supported yet. With the wide implementation of CSS3 in modern browsers, they are far less necessary than they were only a couple of years ago. Any article from around 2011 or earlier will mention them in discussion of fancy styling techniques, but in most cases they can now be dropped in favor of the plain CSS standard property. Users of browsers other than IE tend to keep up to date and old instances of Chrome or Firefox are a small minority, while IE8 still has a measurable user base, and for some audiences, even older versions need to be supported.

Agree.. they are simply a means to maintain backwards compatibility for CSS3 effects for older versions of Chrome or Firefox..