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Add standardized prefixed APIs as separate entries?

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In https://github.com/web-platform-dx/web-features/pull/977#pullrequestreview-2028097234 @ddbeck said:

Honestly, I do not love the change in https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/pull/22951. It seems to me that spec'd prefixes ought to be their own keys in BCD (i.e., we ought to have both css.properties.-webkit-line-clamp and css.properties.line-clamp), since in a lot of ways it's more like a shorthand than a prefix.

Should we do this?

CC owners @Elchi3 @Rumyra @queengooborg

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Start by reading the linked web-platform-dx PR #977 and the browser-compat-data PR #22951, including the referenced review comment. Determine whether spec-defined prefixes should be represented as separate BCD keys; the work is complete only when the project agrees on that data-model decision.

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