- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:30:21 +0100
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:09:25 +0100, j.j. <moz@jeka.info> wrote: > <wbr> is backwards and browser support is incosistent. > Gecko doesn't break at <wbr> inside <nobr> (bug 6347-WONTFIX), and > iirc IE5 did exactly the opposite (breaks only if <wbr> is inside > <nobr>). That is also true for Internet Explorer 6 (and likely 7) per this page: http://www.sam-i-am.com/work/2006/09/soft-wrapping-long-words.html > Opera has apparently no problem with ignoring <wbr> at all. Actually, although the editor didn't see a use for <wbr>, Gmail 2.0 is relying on it working properly and sort of forces us to implement <wbr> probably sooner rather than later. ;-) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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