452667 - implement just text-overflow:clip, before clarifying behavior of text-overflow:ellipsis from CSS3 text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement)

Description

[Andrzej Lis]

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After implementing text-overflow:clip should be much easier to implement text-overflow:ellipsis - when we decide how to solve all theoretical problems and chose the correct behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The same as in bug 312156

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron:]

So in IE text-overflow:clip is the default value, i.e., normal behavior, at least according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531174.aspx .  Not that the name 'clip' makes sense for the normal behavior.

Then again http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-overflow saying ellipsis is the initial value doesn't make any sense either.

I'm not sure what clip does, but I suspect if it does something other than the default behavior, it would have many of the same issues as ellipsis.

So I don't see any reason we'd want to implement 'clip' without implementing 'ellipsis', although a spec that actually makes sense could potentially change my mind.  Then again, that's what bug 312156 is waiting on...

Comment 2

[fantasai]

> Then again http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-overflow saying ellipsis is
> the initial value doesn't make any sense either.

Oops. Fix checked in.