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

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.

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].

Do you think, the benefits of the renaming wins over the cost?

[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

/koji

On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
>

Received on Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:31:58 UTC