| 02:56 | <Alan Stearns> | Pagination: there are plenty of ways to simulate pagination in web components, but since we do not provide useful primitives for this they all rely on breaking apart and re-assembling markup elements which is a hard and expensive thing to do |
| 02:58 | <Alan Stearns> | Better text layout: The main missing thing (at least for English text) is better line breaking. If you consider more than one line of text at a time, you can come up with better line breaks over an entire paragraph. All browsers only consider one line at a time at the moment. |
| 14:54 | <Domenic> | I would not call payments near fixed, at the moment. The web is stuck in a very inadequate equilibrium there and I suspect no single actor could move it. (E.g., even if all browsers wanted to move, payment processors / merchants might not.) But I guess if books are already shelling out to the web, at least a web-based reader would not be worse. |