31749 - Page is very wide

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you go to:
http://www.counter-strike.net/maps.html
with both Mozilla and Netscape you get a very wide page.

In IE the page is normal width.

Comment 1

[troy]

If it displays the same in Gecko as in Netscape I don't see why this is a bug 
just because it displays differently in IE, but the page heavily uses tables so 
changing the component to HTML Tables and letting Chris decide

Comment 2

[April]

Attachment: [e-mail]

Comment 3

[April]

It's doing that because there's a long row of ---'s in a table with a height of 
100%.  IE makes the ---'s wrap, netscape/mozilla makes the table that wide.  (I 
have no idea if it constitutes a bug, just trying to be helpful).

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

Marking remind.

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified REMIND

Comment 6

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

REMIND is deprecated.

Comment 7

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

WFM.

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

try seeing
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=6742&action=view
in Mozilla and IE. IE wraps the text Mozilla doesn't. IS Mozilla correct?

Comment 9

[Michael Gabriel]

its a string without any spaces in it
so why would one be allowed to wrap it
if im writing a very long word/string, no browser should wrap it anywhere it
wants ... invalid ...

Comment 10

[Bernd]

Just a few quotes from html 4.01:

9.3.3 Hyphenation

In HTML, there are two types of hyphens: the plain hyphen and the soft hyphen.
The plain hyphen should be interpreted by a user agent as just another
character. The soft hyphen tells the user agent where a line break can occur.

n HTML, the plain hyphen is represented by the "-" character (- or -).
The soft hyphen is represented by the character entity reference ­ (­
or ­)

So the question is: should we break a line of aaaaaaaaa(a lot of a's)aaaa,
I would say: no

Comment 11

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Soft hyphen support is bug 9101.

Comment 12

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 184799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 276256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***