- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:28:15 -0800
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
The <spacing-limit> type defined for 'word-spacing' in Text 3 <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#spacing-limit> assigns substantially different meanings to percentages and lengths - the former sets the word spacing to the given value, while the latter *increments* the word spacing by the given value. If calc() is used here and mixes %s and lengths, like "calc(50% + 1ch)", what does this mean? If I'm reading correctly, I think this would result in a <length> equal to 1ch + half the default word spacing, making the total word spacing equal to 1ch + 150% the default. Is this intended? If so, this seems suboptimal, as it's then impossible to, say, use calc() to set the word-spacing to a particular length. (I had expected "calc(0% + 1ch)" to kinda work like that.) Perhaps we can alter word-spacing to accept both a percentage and a length, and combine their effects? ~TJ
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