On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>wrote: > Thanks a lot for the explanation. It sounds somewhat more complicated > than a simple universal rule (and I expect it is tricky to implement > special-case breaking into collapsed whitespace), but I imagine you came up > with what you have from looking at how it is used in real world. > > To be honest, it wasn't scientifically analyzed. It was shaped by people filing bugs when things didn't work as they expected. But we shipped that design in FF3 and people haven't complained about the fundamentals since. We haven't changed anything for 3.1. A simple universal rule would be nice but I doubt there is one that's satisfactory. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]
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