Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text-4] The `text-spacing: auto` behavior should be made more predictable (#9857)

(Disclaimer: I am an independent observer now)

I think it’s a useful feature *even if* it isn’t used on websites trying to make their content look like native content. Text already lays out so differently on all platforms and all browsers that I don’t think rigorously defining the feature for interoperability is necessary.

The way I see it, it’s a flag similar to optimizeLegibility or optimizeSpeed, where an author can defer judgement about exactly what operations the browser will do to implement it. It allows an author to say “just make it good, and use your existing (platform) expertise to do so.” Something like “text-autospace: ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric” doesn’t fit the bill for this use case.

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