RE: [selectors3][css-inline] sizing of (floated) ::first-letter from Greg Whitworth on 2014-09-22 (www-style@w3.org from September 2014)

From: Greg Whitworth <gwhit@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:48:22 +0000
To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <eaefc06bf5cb43c996144f393e9207c3@DM2PR03MB400.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

> I agree.  'initial-letter' eats the use-case that motivated the loose text in the first place, and having that unpredictability 
> makes it harder to reason about floated first-letter geometry.  We should eliminate the special-case and match the
> non-FF browsers.
> ~TJ

I agree as well but would like to see us all align on implementations in the provided test example. Even though you can't see the red in IE or Chrome we do have an interop issue. I'll try to find some time this week to figure out why this is and then bring it up to the list.

Greg

Received on Monday, 22 September 2014 16:48:51 UTC