- From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 19:07:43 +0200
- To: abigail@mars.ic.iaf.nl, Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
This discussion of word-wrapping reminds me: has anyone thought of hyphenation? I know it is a can-of-worms to include, but *good* dictionnaries and rulesets exist to intelligently break words... And the text would flow so much more nicely... Of course, this might seem frivoulous now, but keep in mind: (a) HTML will have a lifespan of at least a decade... what seems like a serious challenge--ie writing good toolkits and widgets, etc.--now will seem trivial in retrospect in 2-3 years, (b) machines can only get faster, and hyphenation isn't really that CPU expensive. I remember when we were working on X10 (no, that isn't a typo...): Widgets seemed daunting, and only a "select few" were competent to write them. Now, you run out, buy the O'Reilly books, and in a few weeks you can have a production quality widget that will do just about anything you can imagine... Think BIG. There's no other way. -Philip P.S. Abigail: that's not a very Dutch name, is it? Hmm....
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