- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:29:44 -0800
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: >> On 20 Feb 2015, at 01:40, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: >>> (https://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css3-ui?&#issue-76) >>> >>> This was recently added to the spec: >>> >>> "Implementations may ellipse at a text wrap opportunity that occurs before a character boundary where an ellipsis is required." >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Overall though, given that these complications, I'm more tempted to drop this entirely. >> >> Per F2F discussion, it appears we want to keep this, and leave the >> potential complications to browsers as a QoI issue. Some browsers >> already do ellipsize at wrap opportunities in some cases. > > That's not how I recall the F2F discussion went. There was indeed interest in supporting this, but > we argued this would probably be something the author should opt into, rather than an automagic behavior. We resolved to drop it from level 3, and add in level 4 with an explicit switch. > > Minutes here: > http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/2015-02-09/#e521655 > > Or was there some side discussion I missed? > > As for browsers already doing it in some cases, do you have a TC or something showing it? I haven't seen it, and I'd like to. I don't have a test-case, but I recall Dean talking about it, so perhaps one of the Apple browsers does it in some situations? ~TJ
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