Jonathan YuApr 8, 2025

Exciting news for fans of typography!

"For decades, software like Adobe InDesign and LaTeX has evaluated multiple lines of text at a time as they decide where to end one line and begin the next. It’s just that the web didn’t use a multiline algorithm. Until now.

We are excited to bring this capability to the web for the first time, in Safari Technology Preview 216."

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/ by @jensimmons

Better typography with text-wrap pretty

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

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Show threadPablo MartínezApr 9, 2025
@jawnsy @jensimmons I love this news, but I'd love it more if it was available in other multi-platform browsers. Maybe I missed something 🤔
Show threadJonathan YuApr 9, 2025

@pablo_martan Well, the Safari team has no control over what other vendors do. That enhancement would need to follow whatever process Chromium et. al. have, right?

@jensimmons

Show threadPablo Martínez
@jawnsy @jensimmons yes, indeed. I was just expressing that I'd love others to implement it, not that it was Safari dev's responsibility 😂
Apr 9, 2025 at 6:04amTusky