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Autoprefixer 6.1 is out with CSS-in-JS and :read-only support (github.com/postcss)
44 points by iskin on Nov 7, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 18 comments


Autoprefixer is my favourite part of the build process (using Gulp). Makes life much easier. Would recommend.


Ditto. Just decided to start using it, decided a browser baseline (IE9 in my case) and used it. Have stopped writing prefixes and never had a problem with Autoprefixer, I've pretty much forgotten it's there.


"By the people and for the people"? What's up with the political message on top of this?


Having a little browse through their releases (https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer/releases), it seems like many of them are national mottos, qv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_mottos

This one is Algeria's.

That's the what - as for the why, your guess is as good as mine.


Autoprefixer 5.2 release name was “Dont tread on me”, motto from historical American flag historical American flag https://twitter.com/autoprefixer/status/603596652683866114


Add in "of the people" and it's the basis of representative democracy.


Do you have a problem with that?


No, I'm curious. Aren't you? Or does everyone besides me already know what it means and what the connection is to the software?


Yeah, I am curious, too. I misjudged the tone of your comment, bad assumption on my part.


Isn't the person (team?) who makes Autoprefixer Russian? I wonder if this is a subtle swipe at the political climate there.


It doesn't necessarily seem _political_ to use flag mottos for release titles.


If he or especially she did, the wouldn't be allowed to have a problem with that in Algeria - or any islamic nation for that matter. That's the hilarious irony of it.


The docs are not clear on one point: will it work correctly if I pass, say bootstrap.css through it? Or will it add duplicate prefixes?


It will actually remove prefixes that aren't needed, as well as not duplicating any existing ones that it intends to keep.


Fantastic, thank you.


Interactive demo: http://autoprefixer.github.io/ Autoprefixer works with Rails, too: https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer-rails


Autoprefixer is what made made me to ditch Compass a couple of years ago in favor of pure SCSS. Great work.


hopefully autoprefixer-cli is fixed. My makefile builds have been failing randomly and unreproducably since they split it out of core.




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