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Bug 8720 - define rendering for wbr [sp]
Summary: define rendering for wbr [sp]
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-01-12 09:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:31 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-01-12 09:06:26 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rendering

Comment:
define rendering for wbr  [sp]

Posted from: 83.252.193.59
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-06 10:45:51 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: WebKit and Opera both treat <wbr> the same as <xwbr> for the purposes of linebreaking, which seems fine by me.
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2010-02-08 07:51:55 UTC 
No, WebKit renders a linebreak (if needed) for <nobr>foooooo<wbr>baaaaaaar</nobr>. Apparently this is needed to render GMail correctly.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-14 10:46:26 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-14 10:47:07 UTC 
BTW, if there's a way to do this with CSS, let me know and I can move it from prose into the CSS.
Comment 5 contributor 2010-02-14 10:48:28 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4731.
Check-in comment: Define <wbr> handling.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4730&to=4731