alt Hacker News> Inexplicably, until 2025, browsers stuck with the naive greedy algorithm, subjecting generations of web users to ugly typography.
> WebKit devs, you are awesome for shipping this feature ahead of everyone else...
Um, no? Chrome shipped this feature in 2023: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-wrap-pretty
Safari isn't early shipping this, they're late. Though not as late as Firefox, admittedly.
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noosphr • today at 5:39 AM
So only 42 years after TeX instead of 44.
One less gripe out html I guess. Still a few hundred left.
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Hmm, I’m looking at the demo in Chrome and don’t see any difference when I turn on `pretty`: https://cdpn.io/pen/debug/xxvoqNM
In Safari, it’s a very different look.