- From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:37:27 -0700
- To: Daniel Glazman <glazman@netscape.com>, "Peter S. Linss" <peter@linss.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
From: glazman@netscape.com (Daniel Glazman) Subject: Re: first-word pseudo-element Date: Fri, May 18, 2001, 1:11 AM > All text/visual properties should apply to all languages and writing system. I strongly disagree. It is reasonable to expect that different languages and writing systems will have different layout/typographic effects in common usage (yes, even before the web). Therefore, it is far more useful to pursue properties even if they only apply to a few languages, than to limit properties to some lowest common denominator across hundreds of languages. 'word-spacing' may only apply to some languages, just as 'ruby' layout may only apply to some languages. There are other examples of properties which only make sense in a few languages (which happen to be non-Latin) in the recent CSS3 Text Module. We should seek to represent the individual stylistic/typographical richness of different languages and writing systems rather than attempting to force them all to fit one mold. Tantek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raise your standards. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/
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