Intent to Implement: Unprefix -webkit-line-break behind "test" runtime flag
Koji Ishii
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Spec
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#line-break-property
Summary
This property controls breaking rules for punctuation for East Asian scripts.
The parser for the prefixed property is implemented and is shipping, but it doesn't work as expected.
Motivation
The plan is to fix the implementation and work on planning to ship the unprefixed property. Unprefix behind the flag is needed to import tests to work on fixes (crbug.com/614955.)From Edge platform data, 'line-break: strict' is used by 0.042%; top URLs contain major Japanese sites and one of them are in top 1,000.
Interoperability and Compatibility Risk
Edge: Shipped (based on old spec, 'normal' and 'strict' only)
Firefox: No signals
Safari: Shipped, landed to unprefix
Web developers: Positive
Ongoing technical constraints
None.
Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes.
OWP launch tracking bug
None yet, I'll file in ship planning. crbug.com/306730 tracks fixing this feature.
Link to entry on the feature dashboard
None yet, I'll file in ship planning.
Requesting approval to ship?
No.
