Consider doing text-overflow only at display list building.

[emilio]

I don't think our handling of text-overflow is extremely complex, but I think it could be simplified (we'd get rid of TruncatedFragments, etc), if we could handle it at display list building.

What do you think @notriddle?

[emilio]

Also @mbrubeck may have opinions on this?

[notriddle]

What do you think @notriddle?

I think it's a good idea.

[mbrubeck]

👍 Getting rid of TruncatedFragment would be nice.

[emilio]

Turns out, while not super-complex, it's super-broken, d'oh :)

(#17009)

[stshine]

This looks more complicated than it seems, because we still need the layout the text-overflow value to get its length during layout. (I guess this is the reason that all other engines do not support string values.)

[nox]

Is this still something we think is doable?