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by jagged-chisel 2231 days ago
Indeed. I'd suggest a change in this code even if this change in FF hadn't arrived.
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I think GP was joking. A far more straightforward way to shorten text to a given length is:

  const shorten = (text, length) => text.substring(0, length);
Probably way more efficient than relying on a side effect to a DOM update as well.
But it is the Web. Somebody must be using it.
whoosh