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Re: [CSS3-UI] text-overflow:ellipsis (freshly rewritten/expanded and incorporated into editor's draft)

From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:04:10 -0500
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To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
Cc: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, www-style@w3.org
2011/1/22 Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>:
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:53 pm, Tantek Çelik wrote:
> Also, I don't think "ellipsed" is a word. I see "ellipsize" used in programming contexts, but I'm not sure this is a word either. It may be best to use "truncated".

I think the verb form of "ellipsis" is "elided", but "truncated" is
probably better.


-- 
cheers,
-ambrose

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