Re: [WSG] Displaying and linebreaking long URLs?

[Curby]

On 10/19/06, Curby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 10/19/06, James Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike,
> have a look at this:
> http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html

Ooh, so there IS in fact a tag for doing soft breaks.  It's a shame
that there's no truly generic solution, as Op9 and Saf2 still don't
support wbr, and Ff1.5 still doesn't support &shy.

It seems <wbr> is only in HTML3.  It breaks validation for xhtml 1.0
(and probably for html 4.01 though i didn't check that). &#8203
doesn't render as a space for some fonts in Ff1.5 (tested with Courier
font on Mac and Win), but even IE7 displays an ugly placeholder glyph
instead of giving it its intended zero width.

--Mike


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