Re: Adding "soft-hyphen"

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:35:37 -0400, Mark <Mark.Fenbers@noaa.gov> wrote:

>>>I've already tried it, and <wbr> works well for IE, but Firefox just
>>>ignores it.
>>
>> Neither <nobr> nor <wbr> exist in HTML 4.01, so Firefox is correct in ignoring
>> them.
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html
>
>It's _very_ unfortunate that neither Firefox or HTML 4.01 embrace this
>useful tag.

 I think Firefox is correct in not supporting non-existent tags; nobody wants
the bad old days of <marquee><blink>made-up tags</blink></marquee> to be
encouraged.

>Furthermore, Firefox also ignores the &shy; or &#173; code
>which _IS_ part of the HTML 4 standard
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html).

 But here I strongly agree with you; Firefox's lack of support for the proper
way of doing discretionary hyphens is unfortunate.

 There is a change request for this, though, which you may want to add your
vote to:

 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9101

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