- From: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:31:02 +0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
(12/01/16 5:25), Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 1/15/12 11:07 AM, Glenn Adams wrote:
>> Looks like Firefox 9 does the best job with this, though not completely
>> with ZWJ.
>
> Supporting reasonable text flow across element boundaries (grapheme
> clusters, ligatures, shaping, etc) is a core part of how the text
> layout system in Gecko is designed. We consider that a pretty basic
> requirement for text rendering...
I was indeed quite amazed to see the following example work in Firefox
(and only in Firefox):
data:text/html,<big></big><big></big><script>var big =
document.querySelector('big'); big.textContent= "\ud834";
big.nextSibling.textContent = "\udf06";</script>
Cheers,
Kenny
Received on Monday, 16 January 2012 10:32:37 UTC