[csswg-drafts] [css-text-3] Why is anywhere a value of the line-break property, rather than the word-break property? (#5098)

r12a has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-text-3] Why is anywhere a value of the line-break property, rather than the word-break property? ==
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#word-break-property
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#line-break-property

Seems like i'm hopelessly late with this question, since various browsers have been implementing the `anywhere` value of `line-break`, even if they are not implementing the `loose`, `normal`, and `strict` values.  However, i find that having the `anywhere` value under `line-break` rather than `word-break` is very confusing when i want to figure out how to style content.

It seems to me that `anywhere` is a natural fit alongside the other word-break values, since it's presumably exclusive to them in usage.

Can someone explain for me (so that i can explain to others) why the `anywhere` value was attached to `line-break`?

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Received on Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:13:44 UTC