CSS3 Transforms and IndexedDB Unprefixed in Firefox 16 Nightly

The modern web is great, developers have all sorts of tools to build great looking, fast and functional apps they need. What's more, newer and better tools are coming all the time. Dig deeper than the surface and you'll find that the web, the great unifier, is still heavily fragmented.

Many of the big additions of recent years related to HTML or CSS have been implemented in slightly different ways by browser makers. It's common practice for all of them to "prefix" features, i.e. have developers use a prefixed version of the property rather than the common, standard one, until the feature proves stable enough.

Mozilla is making a big step today by unprefixing CSS Transforms, a big feature of CSS3, as well as IndexedDB, a big piece of the puzzle of technologies that work together to make powerful web apps possible. This is in Firefox 16 in the Nightly channel.

What this means is that Mozilla's implementation of the specifications are considered stable and that Firefox should behave exactly as web developers would expect when using these features. That's the theory anyway.

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