- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:46:38 +0100
- To: "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
On 17/12/2012 19:55 , Thomas A. Fine wrote: > But it doesn't work because: > * The common practice of using fails because this is not > collapsed and can break the justified text either on the right, or on > the left depending on where the non-breaking space was used (see default > blogger post editor behavior, which preserves extra spaces using > but disrupts the left margin in left-justified text). > * Using other space entities may avoid that issue but the use of any > space entity still fails to give fine-grained CSS control of the > formatting. > * Using spans for each sentence with CSS and the box model also > breaks justification, because the extra space added in a box model also > fails to collapse at line breaks. > * Using spans with CSS and the word-spacing parameter solves the > justification problems but it inverts the expected CSS hierarcy for > controlling layout, setting the word-spacing to the sentence size as a > more global value and overriding it locally for every single contained > element to set the word-spacing back to what is actually desired for > word spacing. That sounds like a potential use case, but it's entirely about styling. The venue for that is the CSS WG, on www-style. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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