On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Dan Wood wrote:
Running blot, it appears that editable divs in webkit treat option-
space as a regular space, not as a non-breaking space. I can't
believe this could have been neglected, so maybe it's not a bug?
Personally, I'd like to be able to insert non-breaking spaces,
since it would mirror other text fields.
Any thoughts? Should I file a bug?
I think the reason this is done is because we use a sequence of
alternating normal spaces and non-breaking spaces, plus some special
WebKit-specific CSS properties, to achieve desired whitespace
behavior. We want multiple spaces to show up in the middle of a line,
but collapse away at the end, as in normal text editors.
In WebKit-based clients, like Safari or Mail, we can get the display
to be just right, using a special CSS property. In other clients, we
want decent fallback. The closest you can get is alternating space /
nbsp, which preserves the multiple spaces but will break in the
middle if needed.
An alternate design for this that still allowed entering true non-
breaking spaces would be welcome - we could not figure out how last
time we thought about this.
Regards,
Maciej
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