Re: [css-pseudo] Need a way to styling the disclosure triangle of the <details> (or <summary>) element

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > There are lots of discussions here around why list-item is fine. Let's
>> > try
>> > considering the other side: why do you think adding an alias for them is
>> > not
>> > good? If aliasing makes things less confusing for future use, I think it
>> > should be fine. What would be hurt if we do that?
>>
>> "Why not" isn't a good reason to add things to a language.  Additions
>> should have a strong justification behind them.  Aliasing should only
>> be done when the name is *manifestly* wrong or confusing; imo, it
>> should only be done when we're *deprecating* the previous name as a
>> mistake.
>
>
> Then, could we deprecate the current names and changing them to 'display:
> marked' and 'marker-type', 'marker-position', etc? These names do seem to
> make more sense than the current ones, and make it clearer about their
> relationship with the '::marker' pseudo-element.

We don't typically deprecate very widely-used names, unless they're a
*huge* mistake.

~TJ