Re: [css4-text] A non-inherited property to control behavior of whitespace-only child boxes from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-03-29 (www-style@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:30:22 -0700
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDD7fD=XfSMoTVUD=a5rCGSWqzmnibQe=ceo-e2JgPU4Ng@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:25 PM, fantasai
<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> On 03/29/2012 11:47 AM, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com wrote:
>> 29.03.2012, 22:20, "fantasai"<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>:
>>>
>>> text-space-collapse is the white-space-collapsing part of the
>>> 'white-space'
>>> property.
>>
>> BTW, given that it's official part of `white-space`, then maybe it would
>> be more consistent/intuitive to name it `white-space-collapse` instead of
>> `text-space-collapse`.
>
> That would've been ideal, but we got objections to that from the XSL:FO
> people, who are using the same name for something that's not quite the
> same.

This seems irrelevant except from a "let's all be happy and get along,
with rainbows!" perspective.  XSL-FO is not used on the web.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:31:10 UTC