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First, I know this runs completely against Bug #9350. Since I'm neither in the WG nor have I've ever been involved into a process like this I don't know if this is the right process but I will just put my thoughts here for consideration: Major: -The <wbr> element is unnecessary because it clutters the DOM with things that can be expressed as unicode characters or named character references (often ­ would be preferential since it adds a hyphen, else one that corresponds to U+0200B) -With <wbr> present but no corresponding element for a shy hyphen I fear a large use of <wbr> were a shy hypen would be in order. Minor: -It is not supported in Internet Explorer 8.
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*** Bug 13120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > Status: Rejected > Change Description: no spec change > Rationale: I think bug 9350 indicated that there are use cases for this and > that it is widely used, while the costs of allowing it are minimal. So I don't > see much value in dropping it. Nobody is forced to use it, indeed using ­ > is perfectly fine too. * I sharte Rouven's concerns. * My comment in Bug 9350 questions that there is any use case - there are only bad and misundestood implementations: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9350#c8 * In particular, browsers vary to a high degree: Bug 9711, in particular comment 2: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9711#c2 * In fact, <wbr> should not only become obsolete - it should also only have effect at all in quirks mode: Bug 13120.
mass-move component to LC1
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