CSS WG Blog Minutes Telecon 2019-07-17

Minutes Telecon 2019-07-17

• Issue #3993 (text-decoration-width claims to be a sub-property of text-decoration, but text-decoration disagrees) should be addressed once the text-decor-3 text is edited into L4

• Resolved: Always draw the underline even if it’s specified to be outside a limit we choose [meaning that even if we clamp the underline we won’t clip it] (Issue #4059)
• The discussion on if there should be a clamp on text-underline-offset (and by extension strikethrough and overline offset) continued without resolution. There were three options to pick from:
  1. No clamping
  2. Wide clamping
  3. Narrow clamping
• The argument for no clamping is that there shouldn’t be restrictions on the designs people produced.
• The argument for wide clamping is to avoid design restrictions but also limit performance and implementation difficulties.
• The argument for narrow clamping to avoid the underline being used to replace a strikethrough or overline. There’s a desire to hear from the a11y working group on their views about this concern.
• A straw poll was taken of the three options, but there was no clear winner between the three options.
• As the meeting drew to a close there was discussion to understanding more specifics about the limits intended when the group spoke of wide vs narrow clamping. The offered more specific details were:
  17. Limit is super-far, based on how big can you draw a box and things like that
  18. Medium-range, like 6-10 lines – enough for author to notice that there’s clamping, but not particularly restrictive
  19. Short-range, 1-2 line boxes, tries to keep the line with the next, not overlapping the adjacent lines

• Resolved: Tabs do not hang and you can break between for white-space:break-spaces (Issue #3869: pre-wrap and tabs at the end of the line)
• Resolved: For white-space:pre-wrap tabs hang like spaces do (Issue #3869)

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