Re: CSS Text level 3 LCWD

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Charles Lamont
<charles@gateho.gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
> LCWD says "You are strongly encouraged to complain if you see something
> stupid in this draft."
>
> Dropping  'text-align: <string> value'  falls with a huge thud into the
> category of stupid.
>
> Am I right in thinking that although CSS has been in development for 17
> years, we are still not going
> to have a proper way of aligning a column of figures on the decimal point?
> If so, it beggars belief.
>
> I suppose it is because it appears still to be unsupported:
>
>  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align
>
> Is it so difficult? Is it regarded, bizarre as the idea seems, as
> unimportant?

It still exists in Level 4, it was just removed from Level 3.

~TJ