- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:22:37 -0500
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
On 1/29/11 1:48 PM, Ambrose LI wrote: > IMHO, the only thing CSS can realistically do is to provide a way for > authors to specify “this group of characters is a word / personal > name; don’t break it!” As far as I can tell, there’s no such mechanism > in place. Disclaimer: my knowledge of CJK is about nil. Isn't "this group of characters is a word / personal name" a matter of _markup_, not style? That is, to tell that a sequence of characters is a name seems like it either involves good understanding of the context the sequence is used in (sounds like a hard AI problem) or the author explicitly marking it up as a name; that's semantic information, not stylistic. I seem to recall there being discussion about adding a <name> element to HTML5, though I'm not sure it went anywhere. If it's marked up (<name>, <span class="name">, whatever), then it seems that all that's needed on the CSS end is saying that "white-space:nowrap" should prevent linebreaks even at non-whitespace breaking opportunities. Which is what UAs do in practice, and what the spec seems to say already. Am I just missing something? -Boris
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