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> Therefore, Knuth line breaking cannot be used on the Web. > It might be possible to use Knuth line breaking in specific circumstances, such as when paragraph
by seanwilson 8y ago
> Therefore, Knuth line breaking cannot be used on the Web.
> It might be possible to use Knuth line breaking in specific circumstances, such as when paragraphs have no floats. But not in general.
If the CSS specification was updated to add vastly improved line-breaking to all text, would it really be that big a deal to add a few new exceptions to go with it? E.g. make floats behave differently when different line-breaking is used.
There's already plenty of cases in CSS of "oh, that doesn't work there because you're using inline/absolute/float/overflow". It's not like the rules are particular minimal or intuitive right now.