I still believe <nowrap> is preferable; for three reasons:

1. It will hardly ever be used.
2. The few times it is used, by those few who care, the tag is pretty
self-explanatory to any newbie who stumbles on it in the edit window.
3. We don't need more (complex) work for the parser... with all the crazy
extensions out there today, we need better performance, not worse. (Though
the <nowrap> tag IS still more work for the parser, I am sure it isn't as
bad.)


-- 
Jamie Hari
Editor-in-Chief
Marvel & DC Database Projects


On 1/11/08, Dan Kindsvater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Well, today I'm not so sure we've got a compromise over on
> WP:User:Noetica/ActionMOSVP.  I have been told the same thing at Wikia by
> everyone who has given an opinion, but it will help if I can say "I asked on
> the mailing list and it was unanimous", so: does everyone agree that
> automatic insertion (i.e., by Mediawiki software) of hard spaces into 'p.
> 1', '10 AD', and other places where every newspaper and magazine would also
> protect against wrapping, is preferable to inserting any special markup by
> hand, and especially preferable to a big campaign to try to "educate"
> everyone on the issue?  Some of you have said that you feel strongly that
> you would prefer not to see markup that you have to explain to newbies if it
> can be done invisibly.  And of course, it would save everyone a lot of time,
> and it would guarantee that the lines wrap correctly in these cases.  It
> seems like a slam dunk to me, but there are some editors who are, shall we
> say, resistant.  - Dan
> Dank55, #wikia, #wikia-de, #wikiversity
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