- From: Daniel Glazman <glazman@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:39:00 +0200
- To: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, www-style@w3.org
Tantek Celik wrote: >Oh Daniel, no need to make it so difficult. We already have the concept of >word in CSS1. > >This definition could work for example: > > The :first-word pseudo-element denotes all characters in an element from >its :first-letter up to and including the character after which >'word-spacing' is first applied. > Tantek, who told you I understand and agree with the definition of 'word-spacing' ? I find it incredibly western-languages centric Furthermore, excerpt from the spec : <length> This value indicates inter-word space in addition to the default space between words. Values may be negative, but there may be implementation- specific limits. But some languages have no space between words at all and we have no specification for that. In that case, what means 'word-spacing' ? 'Is it equal to 'letter-spacing' ? Is it purely UA-dependant ? Without space between words in the text nodes, your definition of :first-word does not work... </Daniel>
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