Bah, no, because discretionary line breaks using ­ cause complete chaos when cutting and pasting. Reverted to using an lj-cut. Sigh. Why can't HTML be good?
It certainly seems not to cause cut-and-paste doom, which is nice, and it appears to do roughly the right thing in Firefox, which is also nice. IE ignores it, though, so the LJ cut has to stay.
I've never heard of <wbr> before, and I can't find it in the HTML 4 specification. Where does it come from?
Bah. I still don't see why my defence against widening attacks isn't used everywhere. My LJ style is fundamentally immune, because posting anything wide only widens the specific box containing it. So you can make your own post or comment illegible if you're mad keen to, but the rest of the posts on my friends page, or all the other comments on a given entry, are still displayed at their intended width.
This is admittedly a consequence of the entire style being built on a complicated table, but I'm sure it ought to be possible to reproduce it using more ideologically pure CSS (though my own CSS isn't good enough to do so).
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­cause complete chaos when cutting and pasting. Reverted to using an lj-cut. Sigh. Why can't HTML be good?Note to self: get better browser. Just as a general note.
I've never heard of
<wbr>before, and I can't find it in the HTML 4 specification. Where does it come from?This is admittedly a consequence of the entire style being built on a complicated table, but I'm sure it ought to be possible to reproduce it using more ideologically pure CSS (though my own CSS isn't good enough to do so).