Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Consider removing `distribute` value for `text-justify` from the spec (#7322)

The CSS Working Group just discussed `[css-text] Consider removing distribute value for text-justify from the spec`, and agreed to the following:

* `RESOLVED: Keep 'distribute' keyword alias`

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&lt;fantasai> Topic: [css-text] Consider removing distribute value for text-justify from the spec<br>
&lt;fantasai> github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7322<br>
&lt;emilio> fantasai: I don't know if we can resolve on this because discussion has expanded a little bit<br>
&lt;emilio> ... issue was a suggestion to remove this value, because Chrome / Safari don't support it, but Firefox does and IE did, and it was in CR in 2003<br>
&lt;emilio> ... so my preference is to not remove it unless it's harmful / complicated<br>
&lt;emilio> ... we got some data showing that it is used on some pages<br>
&lt;emilio> ... not a lot of them<br>
&lt;emilio> ... there's an assertion that there's no compat bugs reported, but pages using this in CJK, which are less likely to complain about it<br>
&lt;emilio> ... this doesn't cause a fundamental degradation of the page, justification isn't just what's exactly desired<br>
&lt;emilio> ... the main difference is whether you distribute in between letters in english / greek / , but not in CJK (??)<br>
&lt;emilio> ... it's something that was standard and implemented by the most widely used engine at the time<br>
&lt;emilio> ... so I'd lean against removing it<br>
&lt;emilio> ... because people should expect it to continue to work<br>
&lt;astearns> +1 to not removing for now<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: The only thing I'd say is that we changed how this alias worked in the past<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: now it's a parse-time alias of inter-character<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: I don't think it matters substantially<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: given it's a compat alias<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: I'd rather not remove it, it's cheap to support<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: as long as you support inter-character<br>
&lt;fantasai> emilio: so don't see a strong reason to remove, since aliases are extremely cheap to support<br>
&lt;fantasai> fantasai: The only complaint here was that parse-time aliases are inconvenient in some engines<br>
&lt;fantasai> fantasai: we could allow either type of alias (parse-time or compute-time), I don't think it matters<br>
&lt;fantasai> Rossen_: Any objections to keeping 'distribute' keyword?<br>
&lt;fantasai> RESOLVED: Keep 'distribute' keyword alias<br>
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