740055 - "only user styles" checkbox is badly named, since "user style" is a technical term meaning something else

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 789785

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P2)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The CSS cascade has three basic levels, user agent styles (those from the browser), user styles (those of the user's user style sheets and those implied from the user's preferences), and author styles (those from the page).

Our style inspector has a checkbox that's using the term "user styles" for what CSS calls "author styles".  I'd be ok with using something other than the correct technical term if you think that's clearer, but I think it's confusing to use one of the two opposite technical terms for what the checkbox does -- it confuses people who know the correct terms, and it confuses people's understanding of the terms.

Steps to reproduce:
 1. load a web page
 2. Tools -> Web Developer -> Inspect
 3. click on an element in the page
 4. Make sure the "Style" tab at the bottom right is selected (it's a toggle)
 5. select the "Computed" tab at the top right

Actual results: There's a checkbox called "Only user styles"

Expected results: it should be called "Only author styles", "Only page styles" or similar, and in particular shouldn't use the phrase "user styles"

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

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DUPE?