Re: [css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox
David Dorward wrote: In my experience, most people wanting to use break-word are trying to get user generated content to not flow out of their design. Mine too. In that case, the solution I'd suggest is better sanity checking of the data coming from the user Agreed, but I count preprocessing as sanity checking. (Sorry, words containing over 30 characters are not allowed). Words containing more than 30 characters are often needed in many languages, like Finnish, Eskimo, and German. Even English has some fairly long words at times, and excluding them is not wise in general. Moreover, many languages don't use spaces between words, so the technical concept of word (a sequence of non-whitespace characters surrounded by whitespace or start or end of string) often results in very long words. There is no good solution, and really nothing in CSS you could do for _word_ breaks (as opposite to brutal string breaks via nonstandard CSS). This is something that CSS _should_ address (hyphenation is really a presentational issue and could well be addressed in CSS at least at the level of hyphenate if you can vs. don't hyphenate) but currently doesn't. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox
2008/10/10 Vincent Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What do people think the easiest solution is for this problem? That isn't the problem - its a failed solution. How you go about solving the real problem depends on what it is. In my experience, most people wanting to use break-word are trying to get user generated content to not flow out of their design. In that case, the solution I'd suggest is better sanity checking of the data coming from the user (Sorry, words containing over 30 characters are not allowed). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Pollard Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 8:56 AM To: CSS Discuss Subject: [css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox What do people think the easiest solution is for this problem? Hi Vincent, We use a script to plug wbr elements within long strings. It's kind of ugly, but it does the job. -- Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox
Vincent Pollard wrote: What do people think the easiest solution is for this problem? It doesn't work because unlike every other major browser, The Firefox people haven't seen fit to support it. I would guess that this change is fairly easy, given the support everywhere else, so FF's intransigence seems inexplicable. However I could be wrong and there just might be some valid reason why FF isn't supporting such an incredibly useful property. Is it because it's *only* CSS3 and so they aren't required to support it? That didn't stop Opera or Safari. If I'm off-base here, please someone straighten me out. As for alternatives, well, there's overflow: hidden... Big John http://positioniseverything.net __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox
On Oct 12, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Big John wrote: What do people think the easiest solution is for this problem? It doesn't work because unlike every other major browser, The Firefox people haven't seen fit to support it. I would guess that this change is fairly easy, given the support everywhere else, so FF's intransigence seems inexplicable. However I could be wrong and there just might be some valid reason why FF isn't supporting such an incredibly useful property. Is it because it's *only* CSS3 and so they aren't required to support it? That didn't stop Opera or Safari. Maybe because it is part of **draft** specification ? And one that is seriously under discussion and review ? And no, the implementation was not 'fairly easy'. That said, 'word-wrap:break-word' will be supported in Gecko 1.9.1 (Fx 3.1, when it is released sometime next year). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] word-wrap: break-word not working in Firefox
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