nbsp; Non-breaking space.
#1096 I included a list of names on a webpage the other day and my co-editor doesn't like to see name split across a line. I agree: when lines are long a split name looks silly when you can easily place a non-breaking space between forename and surname. Browsers know not to split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? I have not reported this as a bug (yet) because I expect a crescendo of we know! See the production crew near the foot of the page. All the names have nbsp; in them: http://www.youngtheatre.co.uk/archive/199209_blithespirit/ (One aspect of line endings I see does seem to be fixed and that was the spurious line feeds which I saw in tables. Hurrah for that!!)
Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.
#1096 I included a list of names on a webpage the other day and my co-editor doesn't like to see name split across a line. I agree: when lines are long a split name looks silly when you can easily place a non-breaking space between forename and surname. Browsers know not to split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? I have not reported this as a bug (yet) because I expect a crescendo of we know! See the production crew near the foot of the page. All the names have nbsp; in them: http://www.youngtheatre.co.uk/archive/199209_blithespirit/ (One aspect of line endings I see does seem to be fixed and that was the spurious line feeds which I saw in tables. Hurrah for that!!) Not sure if you are or aren't saying that you are unhappy with the end result. I'm no expert but isn't something odd happening round the last '' where the ';' doesn't show. Is that forcing the surname to the next line, perhaps??
Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.
In article 534696f6bcbbai...@argonet.co.uk, Brian Bailey bbai...@argonet.co.uk wrote: #1096 I included a list of names on a webpage the other day and my co-editor doesn't like to see name split across a line. I agree: when lines are long a split name looks silly when you can easily place a non-breaking space between forename and surname. Browsers know not to split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? I have not reported this as a bug (yet) because I expect a crescendo of we know! See the production crew near the foot of the page. All the names have nbsp; in them: http://www.youngtheatre.co.uk/archive/199209_blithespirit/ (One aspect of line endings I see does seem to be fixed and that was the spurious line feeds which I saw in tables. Hurrah for that!!) Not sure if you are or aren't saying that you are unhappy with the end result. I would prefer it if Netsurf would treat nbsp; as the special kind of space it is and not break lines at it. I'm no expert but isn't something odd happening round the last '' where the ';' doesn't show. Is that forcing the surname to the next line, perhaps?? I don't think so. The semi-colon at the end of most names is just that, a semi-colon. Using commmas, no punctuation or missing one off a couple of names doesn't make any difference. All the nbsp; and the amp; entities are intact. Just a bare-bones list of random words separated in pairs with only nbsp; between the words of each pair still has linebreaks at the nbsp; where it shouldn't. There is nothing special about the list of names I was using. More's the pity.
Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.
On 4 May 2013 Tim Hill wrote: Browsers know not to split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? I have not reported this as a bug (yet) because I expect a crescendo of we know! Yes it's a long-standing bug. NS will break a line at any escaped character, tag or non-alphanumeric character regardless of whether it represents white space. There's no harm in raising another bug report though. You could try using nobr though I expect someone will say it's deprecated. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.
Browsers know not to split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? Yes it's a long-standing bug. I assume 'long standing' only relates to 3.x. 2.9 behaves correctly. -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk
Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.
On 4 May 2013 John Harrison wrote: Browsers know not to split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? Yes it's a long-standing bug. I assume 'long standing' only relates to 3.x. 2.9 behaves correctly. I first reported it on 25th March 2006 (1458451 still open). More like 0.x! I wasn't aware that it ever worked correctly. However that report wasn't specific to nbsp;. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
