New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping | Impressive Webs.
Type is an interesting segment of front end development. It’s always felt like an untamed beast, but that’s gotten better over the past couple of years with the adoption of @font-face and the number of foundries now offering Web fonts.
While that handles the font faces themselves, actual layout on page is still quite arbitrary. CSS3 has a number of properties that can and will help with that.