- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:05:42 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org, Kenneth Christiansen <kenth@writeme.com>
On 11 Apr 97 at 22:31, Kenneth Christiansen wrote: > A suggested tag: something like <w> > for word split A soft hyphen entity, ­, was proposed in HTML 2.0, though I don't think many (if any) browsers actually support it. Some show a hyphen, but I'm not aware of any that actually treat it as a soft hyphen. Still, I wouldn't want to have to write code like this: > Net<w>scape re<w>spects your on<w>line time and > In<w>ter<w>net pri<w>va<w>cy. If you would pre<w>fer not to > re<w>ceive fu<w>ture is<w>sues of Com<w>mu<w>ni<w>ca<w>tor News, It seems terribly cumbersome and inefficient from an author's standpoint. Optimally, browsers would have a dictionary of words and their proper hyphenation, but since they can't even support justified text, thinking about hyphenation is a bit premature. If browsers were to support ­, I can only imagine using it on long words (>10 characters). Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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