Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-display] Display values for <br> and <wbr>

I don't think 
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/610#issuecomment-274911199 
is an accurate reflection of the [WG 
discussion](https://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/2017-01-13/#e762671),
 key excerpts of which were:
> dbaron: what's the use case of authors customizing this stuff?
> TabAtkins: none
> dbaron: do we want to do this then at substantial cost?
> dbaron: if you want to do "it's this CSS thing and we exlpain it 
this way but you can optimize" then we have to write code for every 
<br> we ned to check to see if the stars align, 50 different checks, 
which may defeat the optimization in the first place
> dbaron: we survived for 20 years with it being magic and we can 
survive another 20
> fantasai: we should spec behavior, unspec author's behavior 
potential changes
> fantasai: or like the UA stylesheet has !important and can't be 
change
> astearns: what's the value?
> fantasai: then authors know what it means and have expectations
> TabAtkins: we could say <br> and <wbr> are magic, but you can 
reproduce with this: ______________
> ...
> astearns: RESOLVED: keep <br> and <wbr> magic, but add an explainer 
about how to mimic the results

(Yes, @fantasai proposed an alternative in the [...] bit, but I don't 
think we accepted that in the resolution.)

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