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Because you get yelled at for doing a blink tag, but it's fine to do a moz-blink tag.

The problem is when browser #2 wants to implement blink. They shouldn't use your prefix, so they now have webkit-blink. And the HTML writer now needs to sniff the browser.

Progress?




These are CSS properties, not HTML elements. There is no need to sniff; you just provide multiple properties.

p.wibble { -moz-blink: slowly; -webkit-blink: 10%; -ie9-blink: "Microsoft.XML.Autocompositor(alpha=99,blinkrate=14692,emulate-old-ie-versions=false,true,true,false)#ie9" }

or whatever. (In practice everyone who provides these properties does so in a very similar manner, so it's easier than the above pseudosnippet suggests.)




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