- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 14:44:40 +0000
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
On 7/7/15, 7:39 AM, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > >> On 07 Jul 2015, at 16:30 , Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: >> >> Ivan, >> >> There are several hyphenation polyfills, such as >> >> https://github.com/mnater/hyphenator >> https://github.com/bramstein/Hypher >> >> It’s been a while since I looked at any of them. One problem I noticed >>the >> last time I looked was that they change the page source by adding tons >>of >> discretionary hyphens that then either cause problems with search and >> copy/paste, or more and more code has to be added to accommodate the >> discretionary hyphens in those cases. > >Ouch:-) > >> So I’d classify hyphenation as one >> of those features that is *possible* to polyfill, but it’s really too >>much >> work to do it well. >> > >O.k. Is this only a wrong example (ie, there are other features where >polyfills could fill in for a missing browser implementation) or is it >generally something to avoid? It’s not a wrong example - it’s definitely polyfillable, and lots of people use those polyfills. I just couldn’t avoid mentioning the caveats. Thanks, Alan
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