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Re:TeX Live 2019 by benschulz on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:59AM (#19786512)
My assumption was also that performance is the reason we aren't getting more esthetically pleasing line breaking. Until I read a comment[1] by Philip Walton, who works on WebRender at Mozilla, that is.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19473277

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Re:TeX Live 2019 by username223 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:41PM (#19790131)
> ... it's not possible in the general case, at least not with the specs as they are today.

That's a fair response, but how about changing the (CSS) specs to allow better line breaking? Surely that would take less time than WebUSB, and Google or Mozilla could quickly push it through the IETF.

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Re:TeX Live 2019 by wahern on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:13AM (#19788071)
See also the 8-year-old Mozilla bug for a more detailed discussion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181
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Re:TeX Live 2019 by Veen on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @06:33AM (#19786696)
I'm not a web developer, so take this with a huge pinch of salt, but, if floats are the problem, does that imply that with layouts that use CSS Grid or Flexbox, we could have a decent justification algorithm?
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Re:TeX Live 2019 by jimhefferon on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:22AM (#19786919)
Oh, thanks for this. Very intertesting.
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Re:TeX Live 2019 by jfk13 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:05AM (#19787142)
He's Patrick, not Philip.
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Re:TeX Live 2019 by benschulz on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:05AM (#19788010)
Woups. Thanks for the correction. I think it's too late to edit my original post. :/
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