- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:36:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Thomas A. Fine wrote: > > I guess I was just way too long-winded. > > Buried in there were some good ideas, and I'm no longer strictly > advocating just a sentence tag. I read more about how things are > supposed to work, and I focused on what is needed in general terms, and > then as many different possible solutions and their pros and cons. > > I still think a sentence tag is a good idea, but I would now really > favor an approach that allows CSS to interpret a pair of spaces > following terminal punctuation directly as a sentence break, and then > provide a mechanism to format that directly. If I had to narrow things > down to just one choice rather than a spectrum of available approaches > it would be that one. > > It's practical for content developers, straightforward to implement, can > be easily applied to previously generated content, and does not "ugly" > up the HTML (in fact the HTML wouldn't even change at all, only a tiny > bit of CSS would be added). It's not ideal for semantic sentence > detection, but is at least a significant improvement there. I don't know if the use cases justify adding a feature to CSS, but I'll let the CSS editors and browser vendors be the judges of that. :-) The CSS spec is discussed on the www-style@w3.org list. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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