nbsp; Non-breaking space.

2013-05-04 Thread Tim Hill
#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

Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.

2013-05-04 Thread Brian Bailey
#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

Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.

2013-05-04 Thread Tim Hill
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

Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.

2013-05-04 Thread Richard Porter
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

Re: nbsp; Non-breaking space.

2013-05-04 Thread John Harrison
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.

2013-05-04 Thread Richard Porter
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