Has it frozen?
I’ve always thought that hell would freeze over before I’d have something positive to say about IE which at the same time is a lack in Gecko-based browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon, Epiphany, etc.) But, here goes. The work website (still under development and not yet public) has a menu with lengthy titles. The problem is that Finnish, like many other languages, but unlike English, has long words with many characters. Trying to create a menu in the sidebar with limited space requires hyphenation even with small font sizes, let alone larger ones.
The HTML (4.01) and XHTML standards define the entity ­ (or ­) as a soft hyphen that may be used to give hyphenation hints to browsers. A nice solution to my problem, or so I thought. But, testing the solution with Firefox didn’t do a thing. I still had overflowing list items. But, surprise, surprise IE worked like a charm. Digging around the Mozilla Bugzilla led me to bug 9101 which quite clearly states that Gecko-based browsers completely ignore the soft hyphen. And the bug has been known for five years or so by now. I’m sorry to say, but even IE does it better.
Kokeilepa WBR -tagia (ei tarvitse sulkevaa elementtia). Käytän sitä omassa kävijäseurannassa jossa näkyy todella pitkiä urleja. On toiminut sekä firefoxissa että operassa linuxilla.
Hmm… Mutta kun se WBR-tagi ei kuulu standardiin. Ja minäkin kun pidän kiinni standardin noudattamisesta. Olin kyllä siitä muutenkin tietoinen, mutta ei käy tässä tapauksessa.