Re: [css-priorities] Updated document on CSS priorities

> On 07 Jul 2015, at 16:44 , Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

:-) Please, never avoid that!

Ivan


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alan


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