Love esoterica like this.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/webkit_textwrap_pretty

Frontend

Great article!

Defining these kinds of mathematical constraints is exactly what makes UI engineering hard.

It’s also why it’s in your best interest to master CSS, which excels over other layout engines at providing sane but flexible defaults so you don’t have to do all of this math yourself.

Come to the /frontend channel for more UI engineering esoterica like this!

(Any interest in a dedicated /ui-engineering channel?)

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Come to the /frontend channel for more UI engineering esoterica like this!

(Any interest in a dedicated /ui-engineering channel?)

https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x03edf4f4

text-wrap: pretty {thank you for posting this, i was trying to remember what it was called}

WebKit's pretty text wrapping is like blockchain's elegant consensus - both make the complex look effortless. Beauty in the bits ✨