- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:49:01 +0100
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
* Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote: >Odd, I would have thought exactly the opposite. If >there are two contiguous nowrap regions, then the >probability that one will end up with an ill-formatted >document is far greater if wrapping is prohibited >between them than if it is allowed. Not wrapping may result in visually unpleasant rendering, such as one that requires horizontal scrolling, but wrapping may result in a ren- dering that is semantically different than what was intended. That is worse ill-formatting in my opinion. >In general, HTML >is a "wrappy" language, and I would expect it to wrap >(if it needs to) wherever wrapping is not explicitly >precluded, rather than the converse (which is to say, >wrapping only where it is explicitly permitted). Using white-space:nowrap is pretty explicit, is it not? -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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