- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:49:44 -0700
- To: rfink@readableweb.com
- Cc: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Richard Fink <rfink@readableweb.com> wrote: > Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:23 PM <jackalmage@gmail.com>: > >>When we have UA-specific behavior like this, the convention seems to >>be to use 'auto' rather than 'normal', right? 'normal' implies >>determinism in the application of the property. > > Tab, > > Tell me what you mean by "determinism in the application of the property" as a deciding factor in choosing "auto" versus "normal" to mean what, in other contexts outside of CSS, is often "default". > Do you mean that if the behavior is loosely defined and there's a lot of wiggle room for the UA, "auto" is preferred? Yes, that seems to be a pattern I've noticed. Whenever we have a default value that allows some UA choice in what precisely happens, we tend to gravitate toward 'auto'. ~TJ
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