Thank you for the very detailed answer, Koji! Reading your response, I agree that this probably wouldn't be a web-compatible thing to change at the UA-stylesheet level, but great to have it available soon, so it can go in one's personal or community-maintained CSS frameworks.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 6:53 PM Koji Ishii <ko...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi, thank you for the question. > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 5:15 PM Thomas Steiner <to...@google.com> wrote: > >> Just as a side question: is this and the headlines feature too >> opinionated to become part of user-agent stylesheets? I’m not immediately >> saying it should be, I’m just curious if this was considered? >> > > The short answer at this point is no, we're not changing the user-agent > stylesheets, but as you pointed out, there are two aspects in your question > -- whether it should be or not, and how. > > I think I can come up with cases where it should be, but at this point, I > don't have enough confidence that it always should be. There are a wide > variety of situations where browser's text rendering is used, including > apps like text editors, games, forms, ASCII arts, and so forth. Also > different languages have different typographic rules. Among them, I can > find certain cases where it should not be. When changing the default > settings, all such cases will need to be inspected. Web compatibility and > the performance implication also need to be investigated more. > > When a conclusion is reached, then the "how" part. Generally speaking, the > user-agent stylesheets are where browsers are expected to be interoperable, > so I think it should be discussed at the CSSWG. If you have opinions, you > can post at <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues>. > > On the other hand, the initial value `wrap` of the `text-wrap` property > <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues> allows UA to use the > algorithm for `pretty`, so UA can choose to do it without changing the > user-agent stylesheets. I don't have a plan for doing it at this point as > above, but if we reach a conclusion that Blink should do so, we will go > through this "Intent to Ship" process as it will be a breaking change. > > I hope this clarifies your question. > -- Thomas Steiner, PhD—Developer Relations Engineer (https://blog.tomayac.com, https://twitter.com/tomayac) Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Liana Sebastian Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 ----- BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE ----- Version: GnuPG v2.3.4 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom. hTtPs://xKcd.cOm/1181/ ----- END PGP SIGNATURE ----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CALgRrLmpNbtaMZ7K5V%2BU62tK0DfrN_K_oX5ppCx4kMGOSYrK4A%40mail.gmail.com.
