inline-block whitespace collapse

Hi!

Wished to inquire about white space collapse for inline-block.

IMHO, inline block for layouting has several advantages over floats. I
understand flexbox will suffice in some cases, but it would be awesome to
have some control over the whitespace when inline-block just works.

I generally use it when I have an unordered list, since it's not mandatory
to have closing <li> tags in HTML5. I find this the cleanest of all the
awful hacks to overcome whitespace between inline-block elements..

*Was wondering about the status of this link?*
Is this something really far away in the future? The link indicates so.
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text-4/#white-space-collapsing

Karen