I think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers has, until now, been very crude — and the web has been around a long time.

This sounds like one of those puzzles job interviewers often ask, but there’s a practical relevance at the moment.

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