Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-forms-1] Should auto or none appearance inherit (#12931)

For future reference the extra logs that got cut off at the beginning of the logs above are (taken from bottom of https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11819#issuecomment-3468618193)

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<noamr> lwarlow: css forms. the way it is currently spec'ed is if your originating element has a value the pseudo-element gets it as well. seemingly makes sense
<noamr> lwarlow: this is strange sometimes because e.g. a button can get appearance: none by mistake
<jarhar> q+
<noamr> lwarlow: currently you can (inconsistently) mix and match, e.g. appearance: auto element with none pseudop-element
<noamr> lwarlow: happy to say "stop doing that". will chromium/webkit be open to it?
<noamr> emilio: in particular with form controls like checkboxes/meter etc. it doesn't make sense to have appearance:none inside appearance:auto or vice versa
<noamr> lwarlow: browsers, for some reason, give file input appearance:none
<noamr> zcorpan: file input uses css layout but then has a button inside with appearance:none. IIRC that's what we specified
<noamr> zcorpan: we can change the UA stylesheet but not sure it solves anything
<dbaron> github: https://github.com/https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11819
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