Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text-4] text-wrap: balance feedback following the experimental Chrome Canary implementation (#8516)

> While this is ok from the “The exact algorithm is UA-defined” standpoint, I can see how this exact behavior can be more explicitly defined, [...] Overall, I would really like to see less “UA-defined” algorithms in the spec, but maybe there is a way to have both finite defined algorithms for some keywords, and the more “smart” balancing separately?

Note that *ordinary* line-breaking is also undefined in significant ways; the exact same text and styles can break differently across browsers due to differences in text layout engines, break-determining algos, etc.  Text-wrapping is simply untestable in full; you can only verify that relatively extreme/obvious results do approximately what you expect. Exact matching for any of the more advanced text wrapping algos is thus already entirely off the table.

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