Have you ever resized your browser and watched the text reflow? Behind that, automatic wrapping is a world of linguistic and technical complexity. What happens when a language has no spaces between words?

Fuqiao Xue, W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, gives a summary of the diverse typographic strategies of text wrapping. He explores the main approaches to line breaking and uncover the fascinating edge cases that make for a truly "World Wide" Web.
youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2S2VXVFuI

"How Text Wraps."
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