[whatwg] Interaction of <wbr> and CSS white-space

On 01/13/2012 03:45 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote [edited for context]:
>> On 12/15/11 3:10 PM, Ian Hickson wrote [edited for context]:
>>>
>>> I might be open to changing the current spec text -- presumably to
>>> just define<wbr>  as follows, or something similar (though using
>>> U+200B would probably affect text selection in a bad way):
>>>
>>>     nobr { white-space: nowrap; }
>>>     wbr { content: \200B; }
>>>     nobr wbr { white-space: normal; }
>>
>> It seems plausible to me; we should run it by Elika.
>
> I asked her on #css but she wasn't around.

I think it's fair to give me at *least* 15 minutes to respond? No? :-)
   http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/css/20120114

> In the interests of moving on with this, I've changed the spec to the
> above. I welcome implementation experience on whether this works. If it
> doesn't, I'm happy to change it back.

Sounds okay to me.

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 10:05:55 UTC