Intent to Ship: CSS `hyphenate-limit-chars` property
Koji Ishii
Contact emails
ko...@chromium.org
Explainer
None
Specification
https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-text-4/#propdef-hyphenate-limit-chars
Summary
This property specifies the minimum number of characters in a hyphenated word. When applying the hyphenation, the optimal minimum number of characters in the word, before the hyphen, or after the hyphen can vary by the design of the page, or by the language. This property allows the finer grained control of the hyphenation.
Blink component
Blink>Layout>Inline
TAG review
TAG review status
Not applicable
Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
Gecko: No signal (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521723)
WebKit: No signal (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67786) Shipping the old syntax properties `hyphenate-limit-{before,after}` with the `-webkit-` prefix.
Web developers: Positive (https://medium.com/clear-left-thinking/all-you-need-to-know-about-hyphenation-in-css-2baee2d89179#8434)
Other signals: https://justmarkup.com/articles/2019-01-28-a-look-at-css-hyphenation-in-2019/#too-much-hyphenation https://generatedcontent.org/post/44751461516/finer-grained-control-of-hyphenation-with-css4 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=924069 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521723
Gecko: No signal (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521723)
WebKit: No signal (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67786) Shipping the old syntax properties `hyphenate-limit-{before,after}` with the `-webkit-` prefix.
Web developers: Positive (https://medium.com/clear-left-thinking/all-you-need-to-know-about-hyphenation-in-css-2baee2d89179#8434)
Other signals: https://justmarkup.com/articles/2019-01-28-a-look-at-css-hyphenation-in-2019/#too-much-hyphenation https://generatedcontent.org/post/44751461516/finer-grained-control-of-hyphenation-with-css4 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=924069 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521723
WebView application risks
Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
No
Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
No
Debuggability
The new CSS property should be rolled out to the autocomplete functionality.
Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes
Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
Yes
Flag name
Requires code in //chrome?
False
Tracking bug
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=924069
Non-OSS dependencies
Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open source repository and its open-source dependencies to function?
NoEstimated milestones
109
Anticipated spec changes
Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
NoLink to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5150761588097024
Links to previous Intent discussions
Intent to prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAHe_1d%2BBZ_90HVACwsBEDSBnTB_LDfF%3DriVmi2c%3DzUyMVcDYAw%40mail.gmail.com
This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.
Mike Taylor
Contact emails
ko...@chromium.org
Explainer
None
Specification
https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-text-4/#propdef-hyphenate-limit-chars
Summary
This property specifies the minimum number of characters in a hyphenated word. When applying the hyphenation, the optimal minimum number of characters in the word, before the hyphen, or after the hyphen can vary by the design of the page, or by the language. This property allows the finer grained control of the hyphenation.
Blink component
Blink>Layout>Inline
TAG review
TAG review status
Not applicable
Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
WebKit: No signal (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67786) Shipping the old syntax properties `hyphenate-limit-{before,after}` with the `-webkit-` prefix.
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Koji Ishii
We could probably take this as a positive signal, despite not being a formal position - there's a WIP patch written by :jfkthame that's been reviewed. But I asked just in case, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521723#c9.
Could we request a signal via https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/ please? It would be nice if devs didn't have to include this second non-standard property forever.
Mike Taylor
Daniel Bratell
LGTM2
/Daniel
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Chris Harrelson
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