Would you like some help with this?

[isochronous]

I notice that there hasn't been much activity past the initial commit... have you abandoned this? I wouldn't want to completely take over the project, but I would be willing to collaborate on at least a 1.0 version. I'm a web software developer with ~7 years heavy JS experience and 10+ years CSS experience (though mostly with 2.1), and though I've never written a polyfill before, I have written a couple of custom text layout systems. If we could get this useful in at least the latest version of FF, Safari, Chrome, and IE (preferably back to IE9), then I know there would be a good bit of interest in it.

[Merri]

I'm not entirely disinterested on the project, but I didn't get things complete before other things took their toll and getting this done requires pushing a lot of state into one's mind due to complexities in it. Making a naïve solution is easy enough, but one that works with more complex sets of elements or new browser features such as hyphens add a lot of extra complexity; or boundaries on what techniques can be used for things to still work "properly". I have a great dislike for doing things the easy hacky way - which sometimes slows me down to not getting hobby level things done, as can be seen here.

These days I'm mostly interested on creating React components, but I guess in this case it would be good to do that works with both vanilla JS world as well as React.

Also, I'm not sure how one would add testing for this, because it could be easier to just make tests cases and then code away until each case is covered. Right now the only way I guess works is just to write a page with all imaginable cases and manually review that nothing is broken.

Timewise this weekend would've been great for focusing on a random project like this, but I'm a bit sick so I don't know if I'll get anything done :(

[isochronous]

No problem, I'm out of town this weekend anyway. If in the future you decide to push forward with it, then I'll be happy to contribute, but if not, then no worries. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:33 PM Vesa Piittinen [email protected] wrote:

I'm not entirely disinterested on the project, but I didn't get things complete before other things took their toll and getting this done requires pushing a lot of state into one's mind due to complexities in it. Making a naïve solution is easy enough, but one that works with more complex sets of elements or new browser features such as hyphens add a lot of extra complexity; or boundaries on what techniques can be used for things to still work "properly". I have a great dislike for doing things the easy hacky way - which sometimes slows me down to not getting hobby level things done, as can be seen here.

These days I'm mostly interested on creating React components, but I guess in this case it would be good to do that works with both vanilla JS world as well as React.

Also, I'm not sure how one would add testing for this, because it could be easier to just make tests cases and then code away until each case is covered. Right now the only way I guess works is just to write a page with all imaginable cases and manually review that nothing is broken.

Timewise this weekend would've been great for focusing on a random project like this, but I'm a bit sick so I don't know if I'll get anything done :(

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