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Old 06-06-2022, 07:38 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by graycyn View Post
There is, for instance, a CSS property for hanging-punctuation. And it has virtually no support, not in readers, not in browsers. Probably will end up deprecated. Yet I'd LOVE to see that in our e-readers. Not to mention better font support for spacing characters, you name it. So much could be done, but probably won't be.
Do you know what else has a CSS property that basically no browser (but Safari) implements? Dropcaps. Specifically, initial-letter.

So, instead we have to rely on hacky floats with specially crafted font size, margins, line height, and break whenever a different font is used.

(No one on the web cares, they just use a Javascript solution and call it a day).
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