Anybody know what this page has decided to stop wrapping? My other comment pages seem to be fine...
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by D. Weinberger at March 19, 2005 04:18 PM
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It is caused by Jeneane's post (it has a very long "word" in it - the one with all the names, separated by slashes). Don't mean to say it is her fault, of course; this is the nature of HTML wrapping (or lack thereof, in this case). Not sure what easiest fix for your blog template is.
Oops, I commented there and not here. The characterCode­ForSoftHyphenWillDoTheJobToo AndGiveTheBrowserTheAdviceItNeedsToFigureOutWhereAcceptableBreaksAreAlthoughThisIsOnlyAPartialSolutionToTheOverallProblemOfAWideItemMakingTheEntirePageBeSetToThatWidth.ObviouslyASoftSpaceWouldAlsoBeHandy.
FYI, Soft hyphen solution works on IE6/Win and Safari/Mac, but not on IE/Mac or Firefox (OSX or WIN). Interesting note on soft hyphen issues at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html
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It is caused by Jeneane's post (it has a very long "word" in it - the one with all the names, separated by slashes). Don't mean to say it is her fault, of course; this is the nature of HTML wrapping (or lack thereof, in this case). Not sure what easiest fix for your blog template is.
Posted by: Markus Sandy | March 19, 2005 04:40 PM
You could place a few spaces in the /-delimited list of names in Jeneane's post to allow it to break as needed.
Posted by: Liz Lawley | March 19, 2005 06:17 PM
Thank you, Markus and Liz.
Dumb browsers!
Posted by: David Weinberger | March 19, 2005 06:56 PM
Oops, I commented there and not here. The characterCode­ForSoftHyphenWillDoTheJobToo AndGiveTheBrowserTheAdviceItNeedsToFigureOutWhereAcceptableBreaksAreAlthoughThisIsOnlyAPartialSolutionToTheOverallProblemOfAWideItemMakingTheEntirePageBeSetToThatWidth.ObviouslyASoftSpaceWouldAlsoBeHandy.
Posted by: orcmid | March 19, 2005 07:05 PM
FYI, Soft hyphen solution works on IE6/Win and Safari/Mac, but not on IE/Mac or Firefox (OSX or WIN). Interesting note on soft hyphen issues at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html
Posted by: Markus Sandy | March 23, 2005 10:31 PM