Request for Mozilla Position: text-wrap: balance CSS property.

[kojiishi]

Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification

• Specification Title: CSS Text Level 4
• Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-text-4/#valdef-text-wrap-balance
• Explainer URL (if available): https://docs.google.com/document/d/16-T9gqCagJxcST6hcnneSb7qGunxXa37_UHYqMqhPL0/edit?usp=sharing
• Mozillians who can provide input (optional): @jfkthame ?

Other information

This covers just the text-wrap property, with values wrap (initial) and balance. Other values need to wait for the spec to complete making the white-space to a shorthand. Please see the "CSS" section of the explainer.

[zcorpan]

Chromium Intent to Ship: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/f5eLz6PIXaI/m/R__N3BdjAAAJ

[dholbert]

I'd call this worth-prototyping.

It's a relatively targeted feature, which fills a demonstrated gap in web layout technology, which is currently being filled by various text-balancing JS libraries. Also nice that there's an upper-bound on the performance cost of the balancing analysis, via the explicitly-allowed fallback to wrap behavior for >10-line paragraphs (and the exact algorithm being UA-defined).

[zcorpan]

"worth prototyping" is now called "positive" :)

I agree. I think we should have a dashboard entry.

[dholbert]

(We have https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731541 filed on this, for reference.)