Re: [css3-text] Comments on hyphenation

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Mathias Nater <mathiasnater@gmail.com>wrote:

> A missplaced hyphen is a spelling error and thus not acceptable on a
> website. Automatic hyphenation can never be perfect due to ambiguous words.
> Therefor a webdeveloper has to be able to check and fix hyphenation.
>

Since hyphenation isn't standardized (and shouldn't be, IMHO), you can only
check hyphenation in particular browsers, and other browsers might do
something different. I think authors who need total control over hyphenation
should hyphenate their own text using &shy; and hyphens:manual.

It can be checked by displaying the text where all hyphenation points are
> visible. So we actually need ‘hyphens: all’.
>

For debugging purposes you can write a hacky script to find all the points
where the browser will hyphenate a word. I suggest someone do this and
expose it as a browser extension or similar.

I'm not too excited about implementing hyphenate-resource. It seems unlikely
to me that a significant number of Web developers will bother developing and
deploying their own hyphenation dictionaries.

Rob
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