Re: [css-text] I18N-ISSUE-317: Line breaking property and value names

The i18n WG is sorry that there isn't a better resolution available, but 
has closed this issue.
Thanks!
RI





On 13/05/2014 19:54, Koji Ishii wrote:
> Discussed with fantasai, she agreed that changing the name costs too much given they were available for a decade or more without prefixing.
>
> The order of ‘line-break’ and ‘word-break’ was changed as you suggested.
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> /koji
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> On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:31 AM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote:
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>> I share your concern. The problem is that these two properties were implemented more than 10 years ago and are widely used. Chromium Dashboard[1] indicates that “word-break” is used in 30% of pages. “webkit-line-break” is low, at 0.1%, but I suppose this is because Blink implements “webkit-line-break” but not “line-break”. I consider 0.1% of the whole Internet is still high, but it should be even higher.
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>> We could potentially rename them and still keep the old names as aliases. We did this for word-wrap/overflow-wrap, which raised some discussions[2][3].
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>> Do you think, the benefits of the renaming wins over the cost?
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>> [1] http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/css/popularity
>> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jan/0258.html
>> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jan/0264.html
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>> /koji
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com> wrote:
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>>> State:
>>>    OPEN
>>> Product:
>>>    CSS3-text
>>> Raised by:
>>>    Richard Ishida
>>> Opened on:
>>>    2013-12-11
>>> Description:
>>>    5. Line Breaking and Word Boundaries
>>>    http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-text-3-20131010/#line-breaking
>>>
>>>    I have always found the naming of the properties in section 5 a little confusing, and I'm guessing others will too. In the spec, the titles seem to attempt to clarify the meaning, though I don't think it's very successful.
>>>
>>>    The line-break property is only concerned with a detail of one aspect of line-breaking, although it sounds like the most important property for handling line breaks.
>>>
>>>    I propose that we change the following:
>>>
>>>    [[
>>>    line-break
>>>    auto
>>>    loose
>>>    normal
>>>    strict
>>>
>>>    word-break
>>>    normal
>>>    keep-all
>>>    break-all
>>>    ]]
>>>
>>>    to:
>>>
>>>    [[
>>>    line-break-strictness
>>>    auto
>>>    loose
>>>    normal
>>>    strict
>>>
>>>    line-break-style or line-break-type
>>>    normal
>>>    force-character
>>>    force-word
>>>    ]]
>>>
>>>    and that, whether or not we change the names, to help people learning about line-breaking from the spec, we put the word-break/line-break-style section first, and follow it by line-break/line-break-strictness.
>>>
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