removal($sniffer): remove $sniffer.vendorPrefix

Previously, Angular tried to detect the CSS prefix the browser supports and
then use the saved one. This strategy is not ideal as currently some browsers
are supporting more than one vendor prefix. The best example is Microsoft Edge
that added -webkit- prefixes to be more Web-compatible; Firefox is doing
a similar thing on mobile. Some of the -webkit--prefixed things are now even
getting into specs to sanction that they're now required for Web compatibility.

In some cases Edge even supports only the -webkit--prefixed property; one
example is -webkit-appearance.

$sniffer.vendorPrefix is no longer used in Angular core outside of $sniffer
itself; taking that and the above problems into account, it's better to just
remove it. The only remaining use case was an internal use in detection of
support for transitions/animations but we can directly check the webkit prefix
there manually; no other prefix matters for them anyway.

$sniffer is undocumented API so this removal is not a breaking change. However,
if you've previously been using it in your code, just paste the following
to get the same function:

    var vendorPrefix = (function() {
      var prefix, prop, match;
      var vendorRegex = /^(Moz|webkit|ms)(?=[A-Z])/;
      for (prop in document.createElement('div').style) {
        if ((match = vendorRegex.exec(prop))) {
          prefix = match[0];
          break;
        }
      }
      return prefix;
    })();

The vendorPrefix variable will contain what $sniffer.vendorPrefix used to.

Note that we advise to not check for vendor prefixes this way; if you have to
do it, it's better to check it separately for each CSS property used for the
reasons described at the beginning. If you use jQuery, you don't have to do
anything; it automatically adds vendor prefixes to CSS prefixes for you in
the .css() method.

Fixes #13690

Author: mgol

src/ng/sniffer.js

@@ -34,33 +34,15 @@ function $SnifferProvider() {
           toInt((/android (\d+)/.exec(lowercase(($window.navigator || {}).userAgent)) || [])[1]),
         boxee = /Boxee/i.test(($window.navigator || {}).userAgent),
         document = $document[0] || {},
-        vendorPrefix,
-        vendorRegex = /^(Moz|webkit|ms)(?=[A-Z])/,
         bodyStyle = document.body && document.body.style,
         transitions = false,
-        animations = false,
-        match;
+        animations = false;
 
     if (bodyStyle) {
-      for (var prop in bodyStyle) {
-        if ((match = vendorRegex.exec(prop))) {
-          vendorPrefix = match[0];
-          vendorPrefix = vendorPrefix[0].toUpperCase() + vendorPrefix.substr(1);
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-
-      if (!vendorPrefix) {
-        vendorPrefix = ('WebkitOpacity' in bodyStyle) && 'webkit';
-      }
-
-      transitions = !!(('transition' in bodyStyle) || (vendorPrefix + 'Transition' in bodyStyle));
-      animations  = !!(('animation' in bodyStyle) || (vendorPrefix + 'Animation' in bodyStyle));
-
-      if (android && (!transitions ||  !animations)) {
-        transitions = isString(bodyStyle.webkitTransition);
-        animations = isString(bodyStyle.webkitAnimation);
-      }
+      // Support: Android <5, Blackberry Browser 10, default Chrome in Android 4.4.x
+      // Mentioned browsers need a -webkit- prefix for transitions & animations.
+      transitions = !!('transition' in bodyStyle || 'webkitTransition' in bodyStyle);
+      animations = !!('animation' in bodyStyle || 'webkitAnimation' in bodyStyle);
     }
 
 
@@ -90,7 +72,6 @@ function $SnifferProvider() {
         return eventSupport[event];
       },
       csp: csp(),
-      vendorPrefix: vendorPrefix,
       transitions: transitions,
       animations: animations,
       android: android

test/helpers/privateMocks.js

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ function browserSupportsCssAnimations() {
   return !(window.document.documentMode < 10);
 }
 
-function createMockStyleSheet(doc, prefix) {
+function createMockStyleSheet(doc) {
   doc = doc ? doc[0] : window.document;
 
   var node = doc.createElement('style');
@@ -57,13 +57,17 @@ function createMockStyleSheet(doc, prefix) {
     },
 
     addPossiblyPrefixedRule: function(selector, styles) {
-      if (prefix) {
-        var prefixedStyles = styles.split(/\s*;\s*/g).map(function(style) {
-          return !style ? '' : prefix + style;
+      // Support: Android <5, Blackberry Browser 10, default Chrome in Android 4.4.x
+      // Mentioned browsers need a -webkit- prefix for transitions & animations.
+      var prefixedStyles = styles.split(/\s*;\s*/g)
+        .filter(function(style) {
+          return style && /^(?:transition|animation)\b/.test(style);
+        })
+        .map(function(style) {
+          return '-webkit-' + style;
         }).join('; ');
 
-        this.addRule(selector, prefixedStyles);
-      }
+      this.addRule(selector, prefixedStyles);
 
       this.addRule(selector, styles);
     },

test/ng/snifferSpec.js

@@ -172,39 +172,6 @@ describe('$sniffer', function() {
   });
 
 
-  describe('vendorPrefix', function() {
-    it('should return the correct vendor prefix based on the browser', function() {
-      inject(function($sniffer, $window) {
-        var expectedPrefix;
-        var ua = $window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
-        if (/edge/i.test(ua)) {
-          expectedPrefix = 'Ms';
-        } else if (/chrome/i.test(ua) || /safari/i.test(ua) || /webkit/i.test(ua)) {
-          expectedPrefix = 'Webkit';
-        } else if (/firefox/i.test(ua)) {
-          expectedPrefix = 'Moz';
-        } else if (/ie/i.test(ua) || /trident/i.test(ua)) {
-          expectedPrefix = 'Ms';
-        }
-        expect($sniffer.vendorPrefix).toBe(expectedPrefix);
-      });
-    });
-
-
-    it('should still work for an older version of Webkit', function() {
-      var mockDocument = {
-        body: {
-          style: {
-            WebkitOpacity: '0'
-          }
-        }
-      };
-
-      expect(sniffer({}, mockDocument).vendorPrefix).toBe('webkit');
-    });
-  });
-
-
   describe('animations', function() {
     it('should be either true or false', inject(function($sniffer) {
       expect($sniffer.animations).toBeDefined();
@@ -222,13 +189,12 @@ describe('$sniffer', function() {
     });
 
 
-    it('should be true with vendor-specific animations', function() {
+    it('should be true with -webkit-prefixed animations', function() {
       var animationStyle = 'some_animation 2s linear';
       var mockDocument = {
         body: {
           style: {
-            WebkitAnimation: animationStyle,
-            MozAnimation: animationStyle
+            webkitAnimation: animationStyle
           }
         }
       };
@@ -299,13 +265,12 @@ describe('$sniffer', function() {
     });
 
 
-    it('should be true with vendor-specific transitions', function() {
+    it('should be true with -webkit-prefixed transitions', function() {
       var transitionStyle = '1s linear all';
       var mockDocument = {
         body: {
           style: {
-            WebkitTransition: transitionStyle,
-            MozTransition: transitionStyle
+            webkitTransition: transitionStyle
           }
         }
       };

test/ngAnimate/animateCssSpec.js

@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ describe('ngAnimate $animateCss', function() {
   var ss, prefix, triggerAnimationStartFrame;
   beforeEach(module(function() {
     return function($document, $sniffer, $$rAF, $animate) {
-      prefix = '-' + $sniffer.vendorPrefix.toLowerCase() + '-';
-      ss = createMockStyleSheet($document, prefix);
+      ss = createMockStyleSheet($document);
 
       $animate.enabled(true);
       triggerAnimationStartFrame = function() {