Intent to Implement: CSS hyphens property

Koji Ishii

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Apr 22, 2016, 2:21:25 AM4/22/16

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Contact emails ko...@chromium.org,dr...@chromium.org,sza...@chromium.org Spec https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#propdef-hyphens Summary This CSS property controls automatic hyphenations. Motivation

The automatic hyphenation is strongly demanded on smaller screens or when used with multi-column. This is already supported by all other major browsers, and the meta bug for our previous try crbug.com/47083 has 157 stars.

Interoperability risk Firefox: Shipped Edge: Shipped (prefixed) Safari: Shipped (prefixed) Web developers: Strongly positive

Low-to-no interoperability risk. This property is already shipped in all major browsers and the behavior is simple to turn on/off, or ignore soft-hyphens.

Compatibility risk

Low-to-no compatibility risk. Firefox shipped without prefix, and the spec is in Last Call. Ongoing technical constraints

None. Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes or no.

No, at this moment.

The automatic hyphenation requires dictionaries. Currently, Mac and Android M MR1 have the dictionaries built into the platform while others don't. We will send Intent-to-Ship when we investigate more on such other platforms.

Please refer to the design document for more details.

OWP launch tracking bug http://crbug.com/605840 Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5642121184804864 Requesting approval to ship?

No. Please see the platform section above.

Christian Biesinger

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Apr 22, 2016, 4:26:20 PM4/22/16

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Yay!

As for other platforms, Linux in this case, I have several
hyphen-related packages installed. Could any of them be used? Maybe
they're not installed commonly enough?

$ dpkg -l | grep hyphen
ii hyphen-en-us
2.8.6-3ubuntu2 all US
English hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org
ii libhyphen0
2.8.6-3ubuntu2 amd64
ALTLinux hyphenation library - shared library
ii openoffice.org-hyphenation 0.7.1
all Hyphenation
patterns for OpenOffice.org

-Christian

Glenn Adams

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Apr 22, 2016, 4:54:18 PM4/22/16

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LGTM

On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 12:21:25 AM UTC-6, Koji Ishii wrote:

Contact emails ko...@chromium.org,drott@chromium.org,szager@chromium.org Spec https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#propdef-hyphens Summary This CSS property controls automatic hyphenations. Motivation

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