- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 11:50:51 -0700
- To: Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net>
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net> wrote: > On 5/4/15 8:45 AM, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: >>On May 3, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net> wrote: >> >>>>> On May 1, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If the feature resets to the previous origin. Why not call it like it >>>>> is: >>>>> 'origin'? Or 'reset-origin'. But 'reset' doesn't have much value >>>>>either. >>>> >>>> IMO, 'origin' adds to the confusion, because it makes me wonder, "what >>>> origin"? >>> >>> That's the intent. Just like you need to know what 'initial' means. >> >>The intent is to add confusion??? > > The intent is to be informed. 'Origin' is one of the fundamentals of the > CSS cascade. Learning fundamentals of a language before using it is > important... /aside > > One point here is that 'initial' is a state. 'reset, 'clear', 'wipe', > 'fallback' or 'rollback' are actions, not states. > It doesn't explain the previous point(s) of origin very well. > > If no love for 'origin' alone, how about: > 'ua-origin','default-origin' or 'back-origin'? "origin" is also an already-overloaded term of art in the web (the more important usage of it is the origin of a URL), and we don't really talk about it except in Cascade; in ordinary parlance, we talk about "the user-agent stylesheet" directly, rather than mentioning the "user-agent origin". I agree that it's not a good term to use here. My favorite is "default-value" from Florian. ^_^ ~TJ
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