CSS value 'initial' is not supported by IE

[necolas]

style.show won't work in IE: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/initial#Browser_compatibility

[azer]

what would work in all browsers?

[necolas]

no single value will work.

jquery tries to work it out using an iframe (pretty nasty imo): https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/c869a1ef8a031342e817a2c063179a787ff57239/src/css/defaultDisplay.js

or you could keep a map: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/995f70777ac6c0f988a44807ef1399e73937b2ee/test/unit/effects.js#L103-L118

perhaps there's a way to test if initial is supported, and then fallback to the map if not

[necolas]

alternatively, show could claim to do nothing more than set style.display to "". that way hide/show can be described as style.display="none"/style.display="". it won't cover as many use cases as an explicit 'show', but most of those cases aren't good or required patterns.

[azer]

@necolas would you like to get access to directly edit these libraries? I can add you as contributor and owner to the modules that you'd like to publish

[necolas]

yeah sure

[azer]

@necolas ok, sent you invite and added to the module owners: https://www.npmjs.org/package/dom-style let me know if you need other module ownerships, too

[vvo]

interesting, which solution do we pick?
initial
fallback to map
fallback to ""/none (unkown element)

[TehShrike]

This is hidden's problem now!