Is the khtml prefix necessary?

Question

Should I feel bad about leaving out the -khtml- prefix from css attributes like border-radius and box-shadow?

What is the percentage of Konqueror users anyway?

Answer 1

Necessity of khtml

Basically khtml is a prefix for the Konqueror browser

But now days, it is not required to the use of this prefix, because the Konqueror latest browsers understand the the css

for e.g. -khtml-property_name: value

Answer 2

If the browser does not even show in your stats and your "other" browser listing isn't 30% or something significant, I think you can safely leave it out.

(And "other" is so low on StatsCounter that it barely registers. http://gs.statcounter.com/)

Answer 3

Personally I include it just to be sure that I'm covering everything, but honestly I don't think it ever gets used. I wouldn't worry about it if you don't want to, but I try and be as cross-browser compatible as I can. You can also use something like Curvey Corners (google it) which (I think) just lets you put border-radius and does all the other stuff for you using JS, and on top of that, adds support for border-radius to browsers that don't natively support it. There are similar things out there for other CSS3 stuff, but that's really the only one I use.

I just can't wait for CSS3 to be widespread so we can use it without having to worry about all these useless prefixes.