- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 03:43:17 -0500
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com>, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> From: L. David Baron [mailto:dbaron@dbaron.org] > > I don't like it. I haven't heard of control to prevent a single (or other small number) of > words on the last line as being a feature people use without also having a line breaking > algorithm that would take the words from somewhere other than the next-to-last line, i.e., > a line breaking algorithm that does whole-paragraph (or at least bunch-of-lines-at-a-time) > optimization. I tend to think that without whole-paragraph line break optimization, it's just > going to make things look funny and authors aren't going to want to use it (perhaps with > exceptions for very limited cases, like headings that will appear on either one or two lines). It sounds like you assume that browsers do not do paragraph-level-optimizations. Without knowing much of the history, is it too wild to start thinking about having paragraph-level-optimizations in browsers? Documents on the web is getting much longer, and people use browsers to read books these days. I think better readability and typography helps browsers. If performance is still a concern, it could switch typography engine by property, like InDesign does. Regards, Koji
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