Re: text-overflow:ellipsis and text-overflow:<string> need to truncate bidi text logically from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-06-24 (www-style@w3.org from June 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:08:28 -0700
To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
Cc: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCVBvKox5dVUg9WziPy6w5ZLRuTWT9ZPTRqggeHJXv36g@mail.gmail.com>

We had this exact discussion some time ago, and decided very
deliberately that we wanted the ellipsis to be a visual effect, not a
logical one.  I'd recommend searching the mailing lists for these
discussions first, so you can see the older arguments for it.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 24 June 2013 16:09:15 UTC