- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:54:11 +0000
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>
- CC: "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Discussed with fantasai, she agreed that changing the name costs too much given they were available for a decade or more without prefixing. The order of ‘line-break’ and ‘word-break’ was changed as you suggested. /koji On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:31 AM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote: > I share your concern. The problem is that these two properties were implemented more than 10 years ago and are widely used. Chromium Dashboard[1] indicates that “word-break” is used in 30% of pages. “webkit-line-break” is low, at 0.1%, but I suppose this is because Blink implements “webkit-line-break” but not “line-break”. I consider 0.1% of the whole Internet is still high, but it should be even higher. > > We could potentially rename them and still keep the old names as aliases. We did this for word-wrap/overflow-wrap, which raised some discussions[2][3]. > > Do you think, the benefits of the renaming wins over the cost? > > [1] http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/css/popularity > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jan/0258.html > [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jan/0264.html > > /koji > > On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com> wrote: > >> State: >> OPEN >> Product: >> CSS3-text >> Raised by: >> Richard Ishida >> Opened on: >> 2013-12-11 >> Description: >> 5. Line Breaking and Word Boundaries >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-text-3-20131010/#line-breaking >> >> I have always found the naming of the properties in section 5 a little confusing, and I'm guessing others will too. In the spec, the titles seem to attempt to clarify the meaning, though I don't think it's very successful. >> >> The line-break property is only concerned with a detail of one aspect of line-breaking, although it sounds like the most important property for handling line breaks. >> >> I propose that we change the following: >> >> [[ >> line-break >> auto >> loose >> normal >> strict >> >> word-break >> normal >> keep-all >> break-all >> ]] >> >> to: >> >> [[ >> line-break-strictness >> auto >> loose >> normal >> strict >> >> line-break-style or line-break-type >> normal >> force-character >> force-word >> ]] >> >> and that, whether or not we change the names, to help people learning about line-breaking from the spec, we put the word-break/line-break-style section first, and follow it by line-break/line-break-strictness. >> >> >> >
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