How to achieve text-overflow:ellipsis in Firefox 4 without JavaScript?

text-overflow:ellipsis in Firefox 4

Firefox developers have been debating text-overflow:ellipsis since 2005; CSS property, despite the obvious need, they can't seem to actually implement it (even experimentally -moz- implementation is also sufficient).

A few years ago, someone figured out how to hack Firefox 3 to support ellipses. This hack implements it using XUL using the -moz-binding feature. There are many websites using this hack now.

Bad news? Firefox 4 is removing the -moz-binding feature, which means this hack will no longer work.

So once Firefox 4 is released (I hear it's later this month) we'll have the problem of not being able to support this feature again.

So my question is: is there any other way to solve this problem? (I try to avoid JavaScript solutions when possible)

[edit]
There are a lot of upvotes, so obviously it's not just me who wants to know, but so far I've only received one answer, basically It says "Use JavaScript". I'd still like a solution that doesn't require JS anyway, or worst case uses it as a fallback if the CSS functionality doesn't work. So I'm going to put a bounty on this question in the hope that someone, somewhere, has found the answer.

[edit]
Update: Firefox has entered rapid development mode, but even though FF5 is now released, this feature is still not supported. Now that most users have upgraded from FF3.6, hacking is no longer a solution. The good news is that from what I understand, it may be added to Firefox 6, which according to the new release schedule will be released in a few months. If so, I guess I could wait, but it's a shame they couldn't fix it sooner.

[Final Edit]
I see that the ellipsis feature has finally been added to the "Aurora Channel" (i.e. the development version) of Firefox. This means it should be released now as part of Firefox 7, which is expected to be released in late 2011. What a pleasure.

Release notes available here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/7

To achieve the same effect of text overflow in Firefox 4, You can use the following JavaScript code:

var limit = 50;
var ellipsis = "...";
if( $('#limitedWidthTextBox').val().length > limit) {
   // -4 to include the ellipsis size and also since it is an index
   var trimmedText = $('#limitedWidthTextBox').val().substring(0, limit - 4); 
   trimmedText += ellipsis;
   $('#limitedWidthTextBox').val(trimmedText);
}

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