Sebastian Zartner

One downside of using a media query for this is that you're just targetting the viewport with it. You can't target a different scroll container element within your page. Though...

As there are now two very different proposals, I generalized the subject and added the related labels. Sebastian

Thank you for picking up my proposal, Harrison! For reference, my proposal actually included two ideas. The first one was to allow cropping in the middle of the element's content...

Additional note: The proposal only covers inline content cropping. There might be cases, in which you'd want to do block-level middle-cropping. Though I guess that's rather related to [`line-clamp`](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-3/#line-clamp). Sebastian

> > There might be cases, in which you'd want to do block-level middle-cropping. > > Would there? on single line ellipsis, doing it it the middle makes sense to...

Giving the [issues stated earlier](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3937#issuecomment-493706724) some more thought, I came up with another approach than outlined in [my first suggestion](https://www.w3.org/wiki/Text-overflow_middle_cropping). > * Normally, you will only want to crop _either_...

The initial suggestions celebrated 10 years anniversery yesterday. 😄 Maybe we can discuss the latest suggestion while we're at the F2F. Sebastian

Bidi behavior wasn't brought up so far, as far as I can tell. So, thanks for that! My gut feeling is also to go with option 2, though I have...

Bidi content is definitely hard to handle and may not always provide the best results. Though UAs should try to do their best to output the contents as expected. >...

The specification text is still not written yet, unfortunately (indicated by the "Needs Edits" label). Though I'm going to draft some definition for it. Once it's in the spec., I'll...