- From: Brad Kemper via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:52:42 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> On the web, inputting soft-break characters is quite challenging. This leads to web content in Norwegian (and likely in other languages) often suffering from bad rags. I feel that naming the property white-space-wrap could inadvertently perpetuate this bias towards English and neglect the typographical nuances of other languages. Your point is well taken, but there is little to no chance that we wouldn't consider the needs of non-English languages. We actively work against English bias when designing how the features work. This, to me, is primarily about the name, and whether we make `white-space` (which people are familiar with) into the shorthand that includes `text-wrap` and a wrap-or-not property, or if the new `text-wrap` should be the shorthand, with `white-space` being a sort of alias to it. Since we can't go back in time to rename `white-space`, it is more about writing ergonomics to me. I believe the primary use of the `white-space` has been to write `white-space: nowrap`. It is easier for authors to just add `-mode` to the property name when using its most common value, when they want the space-collapsing behavior to be set separately and inherit separately. -- GitHub Notification of comment by bradkemper Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9102#issuecomment-1753641703 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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