Re: [css-cascade] bikeshedding "default"

I quite like rollback. Also agreed that unset is probably a better name, but taken.

I would suggest we avoid hyphenated names for global keywords, they’re a bit clumsy. 

Other ideas: clear, remove, cancel

I think it would also be useful to consider what’s the actual impact of changing cursor: default instead. I would argue it’s not used that much explicitly (I bet most uses of cursor property are to set it to anything *other* than default), and in many cases the value it resolves to would be the same under both. Also, any breakage would be pretty minor, not just rare. Can we get any data?

~Lea


> On Jun 24, 2015, at 08:18, Tom Potts <karaken12@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <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- <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 <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
> 
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