- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:30:06 +0200
- To: www International <www-international@w3.org>
Oops, this went to the wrong list. Please ignore. - Florian > On 10 Jun 2015, at 12:16, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: > > As surfaced during the discussion of pre-wrap, there is an ambiguity in the > definition of overflow-wrap: break-word. > >> An unbreakable "word" may be broken at an arbitrary point if there are no >> otherwise-acceptable break points in the line. > > ''word'' isn't defined, which means it isn't quite clear what can or cannot > be broken. For instance, can you break in the middle of an sequence of ? > > I'd argue that you should break. The goal of this property/value is to be an > escape hatch, letting you break wherever if that's what it takes to avoid > overflow. > > I suggest changing this sentence in the definition to: > > An otherwise unbreakable sequence of <a>characters</a> may be broken at > an arbitrary point if there are no otherwise-acceptable break points in > the line. > > I wrote a quick test to check, and it least in simple cases (i.e. with > actual , not with semi-magic preserved sequences of white-space > when using white-space:pre-wrap) this is what everybody does (tested IE 11, > Chrome, Safari, Firefox): > > http://jsbin.com/sitowo/1/edit?html,css,output > > - Florian
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