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		simonw 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text mea... Yes the browser still renders the text at the end - but you can now do fancy calculations in advance to decide where you're going to ask the browser to draw it.

tadfisher 23 days ago [–]

I suspect exposing the browser's text layout measurer is going to become a Web API in the future, much like exposing the HTML parser via setHTML().

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