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Posted Aug 11, 2017 21:35 UTC (Fri) by derobert (subscriber, #89569)
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Parent article: The coming WebKitGTK+ 2.4 apocalypse

FYI: x-prefixes are now generally considered to have been a mistake, or at least an idea that didn't work out. See BCP 178. Appendix B gives rationale, but in short there are better ways to generate private names, and anything that is intended to be interoperable winds up having to keep the X- name forever to avoid a flag day. So you wind up with the X- name de-facto (or actually) standardized anyway, defeating the purpose.

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