[css-overflow-4] Ellipsizing of text in middle of string

Hello,

There are many cases in which the information at the beginning & end (but not middle) of a string of characters are important, especially in technical identifiers (e.g. URLs, file names, library call numbers, etc.). It would be wonderful if this was supported in CSS itself. Attempts to do with the current tools available are unattractive and complex at best.

Apologies if this is better addressed in the mailing list--the guidelines and other material online were unclear which is preferred in cases such as these.

I am following on from a previous inquiry led by Sebastian Zartner, to whom I owe thanks. His www-style@w3.org thread from 2013 ended without any conclusions or next steps. Note that I am not the author of the detailed proposal listed below, but merely a web developer interested in highlighting this proposal.

• Proposal of new behavior
• Mailing list of previous discussion (from 2013)
• Relevant portion of specification