pronik 9 days ago

> Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.

According to caniuse.com, Chrome has had support for this since September 2023. Maybe I'm dumb, but what's so "unprecedented" about this?

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lloeki 9 days ago

in TFA, it is explained how Chromium only considers the last four lines and aims to only solve one aspect (lone word) and none of rivers, bag rags, hyphenation, etc...

Comparatively:

> WebKit is not the first browser engine to implement, but we are the first browser to use it to evaluate and adjust the entire paragraph. And we are the first browser to use it to improve rag.

marcellus23 9 days ago

You're not dumb but you didn't read the article.

dspillett 9 days ago

This is how the Apple world works. Things go from unnecessary to revolutionary at the point Apply implements them, no matter how long other implementations might have already existed.

moogleii 9 days ago

Dig deeper. Use a shovel instead of a spade.

dspillett 9 days ago

Apple aren't the only ones to do is¹, of course, but it is definitely true.

This enough digging for you?

Go on. Vote down without offering a counter again. Take my fake points from me. You know it'll make you feel big. :)

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[1] In true Apple style, people did it before, they polished the act a bit, and took it as theirs!