- From: Koji Ishii via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:04:37 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
@fantasai I'm not saying everyone on the planet want to turn it off. I'm not surprised there are situations it's better to turn it on by default. MS Word is still on by default too, only for CJK, same as iOS/macOS. I suspect e-book readers might want on by default too. But when a feature is controversial this much, and when we're seeing clearly a good number of native authors wanting to turn it off, and some authors even say it's "weird", forcing it on by default is too aggressive and risky. Authors who want it can always turn it on. The auto-space has been a style preference. In my understanding, the majority liked it 30 years ago, when the original CSS Text spec was written. Fonts evolved since then and users read documents on screen more often. In this 30 years, I see more people changed to prefer off. I'm actually one of such, changed my preference some years ago. Technically similar feature `text-spacing-trim` is in a different situation. It's like kerning. Turning it on is an improvement for everyone. We changed its default to be a conservative value right before shipping for web-compat, but no one wanted it to be off by default. When the feature reached the stable channel, I didn't see single complaint. Such features are fine to change the default behavior. The auto-space isn't such a feature. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kojiishi Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12386#issuecomment-3026455359 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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