- From: Niklas Åkerlund <spinningvertex@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:56:57 +0200
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 8/3/07, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Niklas Åkerlund wrote: > > > From: James Justin Harrell <herorev@yahoo.com > > > > > > Is there any hope of getting a property to control how far apart the > > > tab stops are? The default 8em is much wider than I prefer. I would > > > really appreciate a property like "tab-size" to control this. > > > > > > tab-size: 4em; > > > > I managed to dig this up in the archive, because to me this really is an > > issue. And nothing seems to have come out of it. yet.... > > ... > > Note that the default tab stop is defined as 8ch, not 8em.. 8em is certainly > much too large... Oh yes, well spotted! 8 spaces in monospace is more like 8em than not though... > For CSS3 Text, if an implementor wants to implement a 'tab-size' property or > to make the tab size configurable via controls in the browser UI, I'm fine > with adding this capability to CSS as long as the working group doesn't object. > However, as I don't consider this particularly important for most web pages, I > won't add it unless an implementor steps up and says "I'm going to implement > this, please put it in the spec." That seems like a reasonable attitude. No point saying something if it isn't going to happen. Now, if I could just be lucky enough to find an implementor gifted enough to learn short phrases... :-p Niklas Åkerlund
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