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It appeared like a fantastic concept to some Microsoft developers (to get a brief second): Why not add support for each the -ms and -webkit prefixes inside the edition of the internet Explorer (IE) cellular browser Microsoft was constructing for Windows Telephone 7 gadgets?It turns out the idea was a poor 1. And it took Microsoft a single day to change its route, as documented in two back-to-back blog posts around the “IE for Windows Telephone Team” blog.A quick bit of background: Webkit is the rendering engine at the heart of a number of browsers, including those from Apple,Office 2010 Pro Plus 32bit, Google,Office 2010 Pro Plus Product Key, Nokia and RIM, among others. Microsoft uses its own rendering engine, known as Trident,Microsoft Office 2010 X64, inside Net Explorer. When browser developers implement an experimental or proprietary CSS property, they prefix it with the appropriate “vendor prefix.”On May 10, in a post entitled “JavaScript and CSS changes in IE Cellular for Windows Telephone 7,” Windows Phone Principal Program Manager Joe Marini explained Microsoft;s plans for adding two prefixes to the edition of IE (a hybrid of IE seven and 8) that it is developing for Windows Telephone seven.Community reaction was unfavorable (to put it mildly) about Microsoft;s decision to add the -webkit prefix. Daniel Glazman,Office 2010 Generator cl��, the co-chairman of the W3cCSS Working Group weighed in with the following comment (at the end of the original Microsoft weblog post):“Let me state it very clearly: vendor prefixes are here for experimental purposes by the vendor represented in the prefix. I __strongly__ recommend removing *immediately* that -webkit-* property from Mobile IE.”On May 11, the IE for Windows Phone Team did a 180. As explained in a new blog post by Marini:“Our original intent in adding support for this WebKit-specific property was to make Web developers’ lives a bit easier by not having to add yet another vendor-prefixed CSS property to their pages to control how text was scaled. Even more specifically, we intuited that the most common use case for this property was to explicitly set it to ‘none; in order to tell the browser not to scale a particular section of text….“After hearing the community’s feedback on this issue (and a couple of face-palms when we realized the broader implications of implementing other browser vendors’ CSS properties),Office Standard 2010 Product Key, we’ve decided that it’s best to only implement the -ms- prefixed edition and not the -webkit- 1.”Microsoft is putting the finishing touches around the operating system that will power Windows Phone 7 units. A near-final escrow build of the release candidate of the Windows Telephone seven OS leaked recently. Microsoft officials have declined to say when the company expects to release to manufacturing that operating system, but the first Windows Telephone 7 devices are due out by this holiday season.