- From: astearns via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:08:09 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I do not think it's possible to avoid reflows by applying a single glyph width adjustment. With ex height, there's one consistent feature of the font being modified. And even with that benefit it's difficult to come up with the single adjustment that works across browsers (as shown above). There are a lot of glyph widths in a font, and fonts vary over how widths differ across glyphs. Taking an average width is problematic in a lot of ways, and whatever method you choose to average over a font is almost guaranteed not to match the average over glyph usage in a particular piece of content. And even if you did happen to match the average in a piece of content, the average in each line will vary within that content. So any particular value you choose will still be likely to cause line break changes as the number of lines in the content increases. -- GitHub Notification of comment by astearns Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/750#issuecomment-262987992 using your GitHub account
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