- From: John Lewis <lewi0371@mrs.umn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:19:26 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
David wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 1:10:51 AM:
> The problem for web pages though, is that browsers should be
> optimised for incremental rendering, and the result is either a
> delay in rendering or irritating reflow from the proovisional to the
> final form (the TeX algorithm, I believe, optimises at a paragraph
> level).
Although I believe only in rare cases would the height of the element
change (unless I'm missing something), preventing this particular
problem is easy enough using a mechanism already in CSS. Using the
names I suggested:
*{line-break:normal!important}
You wouldn't even need to know CSS; UAs could offer it as a
preference. You could even do this:
*{line-break:normal!important}
h{line-break:smooth!important}
Where the h element is a heading. You would elminate most potentially
annoying uses while preserving the best use.
When I used the longer text as an example, I was really just trying to
show how the mechanism would work. I didn't think it would be much
applied to paragraphs, but as the original person wanted, for
headlines. I think it could solve one of his problems, without ruining
or rewriting CSS.
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John Lewis
Received on Tuesday, 29 April 2003 04:21:40 UTC