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Text wrapping and word breaks

You know, if Firefox 1.5 dealt with max-width and word-wrap correctly, when presented with an unbroken line of text, like Safari does, that wouldn't suck.

Oh yeah, IE 6 even deals with it nicer than Firefox. Although watching what IE 6 does to PNGs with transparency is fun. Of course, I don't really care if IE likes it, as long as I'm like, all standards compliant 'n' stuff, if IE doesn't like it, it can pound sand.

But now that i've grokked absolute positioning, and some fun with z-indexes, i'm getting really good results. I'm using a 12" powerbook as the screen size parameters, 1024x768, and that should still allow me a lot of space for content. This may take a LOT less time than I thought it would.

Posted by John C. Welch at 14:34 | Permalink


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