- From: Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 20:16:57 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- 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 5/5/15 11:50 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. ^_^ Ok. Last suggestion my brain can produce. How about 'primary'? Semantically it does mean "highest in rank or importance". That would play well along the 'initial' keyword semantic. I like that it can signify both primary-(value) and primary-(source-of-origin). If not, the long form "default-value" is my least object-able as well. BR
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