- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad.esfahbod@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:21:00 +0000
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>
- CC: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>, style <www-style@w3.org>, wwwintl <www-international@w3.org>, intlcore <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, indic <public-i18n-indic@w3.org>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
On 10/12/10 00:32, Phillips, Addison wrote: >>> >>> In theory, yes. I'm concerned that in practice there are going to >> be >>> lots of holes in the knowledge of particular language needs in >> software, >>> especially for minority languages. I'm thinking that it might be >>> worthwhile to define a syntax by which a web author could >> explicitly >>> delimit a 'first letter'. >> >> I share your concern, but do we need an explicit syntax? A web >> author >> can always use <span> and style it the same as first-letter. > > Really? I find, increasingly, the need for grapheme cluster boundary handling, especially in JavaScript and in places like CSS styling. Styling with <span> is incredibly inconvenient and doesn't work well with generated data (where span insertion relies on automagic means). I'm all for giving access to grapheme boundaries from CSS/JavaScript. however, determining such boundaries should still remain the UA's job. Lets not design for fixing broken UAs with CSS. My 0.02CAD, behdad
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