diff --git a/src/servo/css/compute.rs b/src/servo/css/compute.rs
index e53fba62586..0afe1f89a0c 100644
--- a/src/servo/css/compute.rs
+++ b/src/servo/css/compute.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 /*!
-Calculate styles for Nodes based on SelectResults, resolving inherited values
+Calculates computed Node styles, based on CSS SelectResults.
+
+These methods mostly defer to the Node's ComputedStyle object.
+The only exception is that this is where inheritance is resolved.
 */
 
 use dom::node::Node;
@@ -17,27 +20,27 @@ pub trait ComputeStyles {
 
 impl Node: ComputeStyles {
     fn compute_background_color(&self) -> Color {
-        compute(self, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0), |cs| cs.background_color() )
+        resolve(self, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0), |cs| cs.background_color() )
     }
 
     fn compute_border_top_width(&self) -> CSSBorderWidth {
-        compute(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_top_width() )
+        resolve(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_top_width() )
     }
 
     fn compute_border_right_width(&self) -> CSSBorderWidth {
-        compute(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_right_width() )
+        resolve(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_right_width() )
     }
 
     fn compute_border_bottom_width(&self) -> CSSBorderWidth {
-        compute(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_bottom_width() )
+        resolve(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_bottom_width() )
     }
 
     fn compute_border_left_width(&self) -> CSSBorderWidth {
-        compute(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_left_width() )
+        resolve(self, BdrWidthLength(Px(0.0)), |cs| cs.border_left_width() )
     }
 }
 
-fn compute<T>(node: &Node, default: T, get: &fn(cs: ComputedStyle) -> CSSValue<T>) -> T {
+fn resolve<T>(node: &Node, default: T, get: &fn(cs: ComputedStyle) -> CSSValue<T>) -> T {
     let style = node.get_style();
     let computed = style.computed_style();
     let value = get(computed);