Re: [css-ui-4] Bikeshedding user-select: element

"contain" matches the same/similar meaning to background-size which seems
to make sense to me.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:28 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
> wrote:
> > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-ui-4/#issue-dc2ca3bf
> >
> > Not sure the name user-select:element keeps the selection inside an
> element if it started there. It got called this way for historical reasons
> (back when the property was also meant to apply to the content of
> dropdowns, check boxes, and radio buttons), but it is not a particularly
> intuivive name for what it now does.
> >
> > How about something like "contain" or "inside" instead?
> >
> > The current state of support for this value is:
> >
> > * IE supports it since 2012 under the -ms- prefix with the same
> semantics as in the spec.
> > * Firefox parses it under the -moz- prefix since forever, but hasn't
> implemented any behavior (i.e. it does the same as the initial value).
> >
> > I'm hoping that this is still new enough that auto (de)prefixers haven't
> yet locked us into a compatibility trap.
>
> "contain" works for me, if we have to change it. No strong opinion.
>
> ~TJ
>
>