146703 - linewrapping for long strings without any spaces

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99457

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[Stephan Steiner]

Long strings without any spaces do not get wrapped at all in Mozilla (and
Netscape for that matter). Furthermore in this case the font size = 0 tag is
actually ignored. The same page looks okay in IE5.5 and above.

Comment 1

[Markus Hübner]

Would really be a nice thing.

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Suggesting WONTFIX

Reason: A word (might be URL, code, whatever) is word and MUST NOT be destroyed.
It would possibly change the meaning and make copy&paste impossible (get wrong
content).

pi

Comment 3

[Stephan Steiner]

I beg to differ.. would you mind going back to the link I gave again? it is 
code alright.. but even mozilla wraps it as some point.. so no matter what 
browser you use you won't get such a long string on one line.. so better break 
it up at the screen border than create horizontal scrollbars. plus.. mozilla 
forgets about the font size tag in this example, too.

horizontal scrollbars are very unnatural.. they force you to scroll around for 
every one, a "feature" which is definitely not desireable. Pretty much ever 
program I know of unless it's a really basic text editor wraps text, at least 
in display mode. While that results in copy&paste inconveniences, how many 
times do you copy&paste and how many times do you just read over a text? ;)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "RFE: white-space: -moz-pre-force-wrap that always breaks long 
lines"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99457 ***

Comment 5

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Boris is always right:-)

pi