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title: "Comment by Timonwa Akintokun on \"How to deal with websites displaying differently on Windows, iOS and Android\" | Hashnode"
description: "This was great, I always make it a habit of writing the long form of a CSS property instead of the shorthand. And I started doing this because of the transition"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-websites-displaying-differently-on-windows-ios-and-android/6406165124418c430e70a3c3)

Comment [How to deal with websites displaying differently on Windows, iOS and Android](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-websites-displaying-differently-on-windows-ios-and-android/6406165124418c430e70a3c3)

[Timonwa Akintokun](https://hashnode.com/@Timonwa)

[Mar 12, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-websites-displaying-differently-on-windows-ios-and-android/6406165124418c430e70a3c3/comment/640d9f5615cd01486d2277ad)

This was great, I always make it a habit of writing the long form of a CSS property instead of the shorthand. And I started doing this because of the transition property. Some people tend to set the transition property to "all" which whichs transitions all the properties of an element even when it is only one of the property they want to transition. That makes waste of the browsers resources especially when they use transition:all; on a lot of elements. So I figured that using background : red; for example, could do the same to the browser resources also. If I am only going to use a shorthand to define just one property, then I should use the long form instead. It's good to know that shorthand does actually cause compatibility issues.

[David de Esteban](https://hashnode.com/@estdav)

[Mar 12, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-websites-displaying-differently-on-windows-ios-and-android/6406165124418c430e70a3c3/comment/640d9f5615cd01486d2277ad#reply-640dcba01f113f512807ab1d)

Thanks for the feedback, and thank you for sharing your thoughts on setting transition properties, I was not aware of it. In general it's nice to know the reason behind following certain good practices that on first impression seem to make our work harder.

[Timonwa Akintokun](https://hashnode.com/@Timonwa)

[Mar 12, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-websites-displaying-differently-on-windows-ios-and-android/6406165124418c430e70a3c3/comment/640d9f5615cd01486d2277ad#reply-640dec2b1f113f512807b0c6)

[David de Esteban](https://hashnode.com/@estdav) We learn new things everyday. 🥰