- From: fantasai via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:08:41 +0000
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@kojiishi There's a third way to read it. 3. CJK authors don't insert spaces for the same reason Western authors don't type curly quotes: it's a fiddly typographic nicety that most people don't care enough about to fuss with, but would prefer if it “Just Worked”. I could be wrong, but this is my interpretation of the current situation. If that's the case, then the best thing to do would be to try to improve the performance hit and eventually turn it on by default. In the meantime, I think for the reasons Tim stated above, shipping the feature with a more conservative default while we improve the performance is an acceptable incremental way forward. I'll note that MacOS's default typesetting for CJK uses autospacing, for example, since they're able to do it at the system level -- this points to a desire to have it Just Work. Newspapers are probably not the best example to reference, since typesetting for newspapers tends to optimize space efficiency over readability to some extent. If we want to survey authors for their opinions, then, we should ask the preferences of people who work in graphic design and typography rather than us programmers... and not burden them with questions wrt compat, which is for us to weigh here. :) -- GitHub Notification of comment by fantasai Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12386#issuecomment-3024661530 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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