Re: [css4-values] Global Keywords 'normal', 'auto', 'none', 'default'

Tab Atkins Jr. (2012-04-03 19:11):
> I agree with 'default' - we had an issue in V&U3 for it for a while, but have punted it for now.

Yeah, I thought I remembered having seen it before, but didn�t check further.

> I also agree with 'none', though not quite how you phrase it - I think all list-valued properties should have a value that means "do nothing".

Okay, that should be compatible with �opposite of �normal�� in many cases, but sometimes the naive expectation for �none� would be somethig to become invisible when �do nothing� would result in something visible.

> I disagree with 'normal' and 'auto'.  When we add them to a property, they mean approximately what you describe.

Good.

> However, making them global means that they're valid for all properties, which means we can't alter their meaning for a particular property later when we discover that we really want to make a "do something reasonable" value.

I�m not sure about that since the suggestion was to make the UA-dependent by default, which should make it possible to specify a stricter behavior later. Anyway, I do see that this might not work for the same reason vendor-prefixes hardly work.

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