Re: [css-text] letter-spacing to the trailing edge of a line

Sebastian Zartner <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:47:39 +0200

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On 7 June 2016 at 16:24, Florian Rivoal <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 20:56, Praveen Puglia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The spec for letter spacing in example-16 [1] mentions that
>
> > *UAs therefore must not append letter spacing to the right or trailing
> edge of a line:*
>
> But when I try this out on different browsers, I see that the
> letter-spacing is indeed applied for the last letter and for, say english,
> the content inside looks shifted towards the left edge.
>
> I am a little confused whether or not I understood the spec properly or
> the browser vendors have no considered it.
>
> Here's the test case [2] with exact same results on Chrome and Firefox.
>
>
> Your understanding of the specification is correct, and browsers have bugs.
>

FWIW, the related Firefox bug is https://bugzil.la/299943 and the one for
Chrome is https://crbug.com/267056.

Sebastian