Re: [css-cascade] bikeshedding "default"

I took fantasi's advice and read the spec before looking at the other
suggestions, and I also came up with "rollback". It's how it's described in
the spec, and I think most authors seeing a declaration of "font-size:
rollback;" will think the right thing. The downsides: it's maybe a bit less
discoverable than something like "default", and there's a chance that an
author will think it will roll back the cascade in some way instead.
"rollback-origin" might work better there, although as mentioned before
"origin" is a bit of an overloaded word.

Another thought was something along the lines of "undefined" (I actually
thought "empty"), although I'm not sure about the baggage you're
suggesting, François.

I think the best one might be "unset", to be read in the passive voice;
after all, it does behave as if you didn't set it. Since that's taken,
maybe "not-set"?

TL;DR:

   - rollback
   - empty
   - not-set

Cheers,
Tom

On 20 June 2015 at 21:33, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
wrote:

> > WE NEED YOUR HELP to get to CR, Cascading L4 has one major open issue:
> > the keyword name 'default' conflicts with a value of the 'cursor'
> property
> >    http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ui.html#cursor-props
> > So we need a new keyword. Opinions and suggestions welcome. Prior
> > discussion at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-
> > style/2015Apr/0329.html (But please read the spec and do your own
> > brainstorming before reading all our bad suggestions.)
> >
> > For the CSS WG,
> > ~fantasai
>
> I just would like to remind the working group of this brainstorming which
> already happened on Twitter:
> https://twitter.com/csswg/status/592663652223873027
>
>
> Suggestions there included (in the order in which they were proposed):
>
> - "parent-default"
> - "origin-default"
> - "get-me-back-to-where-I-was-before-I-messed-with-it"
> - "native"
> - "cascade-default"
>
>
> I also proposed to just unify this with "initial" and allow to specify
> where you want to backtrack:
> - "initial(of-previous-origins)"
> - "initial(of-useragent)"
> - "initial(of-property)"
>    ^ the last one is the default when you just write "initial" without
> arguments
>
>
> Other ideas I've just now:
>
> - "cascade-to-next-origin"
> - "as-in-next-origin"
> - "rollback-origin"
> - "undefined" (if the value of a property is undefined in an origin, we
> use the value of the previous origin)
>    ^ then we can just say that the initial value of a property in any
> level is "undefined" except the ua level where it has some value
>
>
> Best regards,
> François
>
>