Safari Technology Preview Supports a More Comprehensive Interpretation of ‘Pretty’ Text-Wrap – Pixel Envy

Safari Technology Preview Supports a More Comprehensive Interpretation of ‘Pretty’ Text-Wrap – Pixel Envy

I needed cheering up after the last post. Sorry about that. Jen Simmons, of Apple’s WebKit team: While support for pretty shipped in Chrome 117, Edge 177, and Opera 103 in Fall 2023, and Samsung Internet 24 in 2024, the Chromium version is more limited in what it accomplishes. According to an article by the Chrome team, Chromium only makes adjustments to the last four lines of a paragraph. It’s focused on preventing short last lines. It also ad…

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. Let’s take a look at what the WebKit version of pretty does — it’s probably a lot more than you expect. Then, we’ll compare it to balance and the other text-wrap values to better understand when to use which one. Ideas of what makes for “good” typography are deeply rooted in eras when type was set by hand u…