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## Pull request overview
Renames the spec term “default display mode” to “applied display mode” to better reflect that it’s the display mode currently in effect after UA choice/overrides.
**Changes:**
- Replaces “default display mode” with “applied display mode” in the display mode section.
- Updates related prose around manifest application and security override example wording.
- Tweaks the `display-mode` media feature sentence to reference the new term.
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> + Once a manifest is [=applied=] to an <a>application context</a>, the
+ resulting <a>display mode</a> becomes the <dfn>applied display
+ mode</dfn> for the <a>top-level browsing context</a> (i.e., it is
+ the display mode used when the window is <a>navigated</a>). The user
+ agent MAY override the <a>applied display mode</a> for security
+ reasons (e.g., the <a>top-level browsing context</a> is
+ <a>navigated</a> out of scope) and/or the user agent MAY provide the
+ user with a means of switching to another <a>display mode</a>.
The term [=applied=] is defined as applying a processed manifest to a top-level browsing context (#applying), and an application context is defined as a top-level browsing context that already has a manifest applied. Saying the manifest is applied "to an application context" is circular/inconsistent with the definition; consider rephrasing to apply the manifest to a top-level browsing context (and note that this creates/updates the application context).
```suggestion
Once a manifest is [=applied=] to a <a>top-level browsing context</a>,
the resulting <a>display mode</a> becomes the <dfn>applied display
mode</dfn> for that <a>top-level browsing context</a> (i.e., it is the
display mode used when the window is <a>navigated</a>). The user agent
MAY override the <a>applied display mode</a> for security reasons
(e.g., the <a>top-level browsing context</a> is <a>navigated</a> out
of scope) and/or the user agent MAY provide the user with a means of
switching to another <a>display mode</a>.
```
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