Forum looks bit wierd in Opera

Started by lovretta, August 22, 2009, 10:06:16 AM

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Othbarty

Btw, I just rembered...

Quoteis the entity used to represent a non-breaking space. It is essentially a standard space, the primary difference being that a browser should not break (or wrap) a line of text at the point that this   occupies.

Opera actually does what it is suppose to do... Maybe replace the non-breaking space with a normal space? Or perhaps add a normal space every fourth award? Just a thought.

Oth

EDIT: Oh, an btw, didn't get your script working boon, might be just me, but this shouldn't be the way the problem is fixed... It is IMHO a error in the page, and should be treated as such. (No offense ment!)
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Quote from: Othbarty;288906Btw, I just rembered...

Opera actually does what it is suppose to do... Maybe replace the non-breaking space with a normal space? Or perhaps add a normal space every fourth award? Just a thought.

Oth

EDIT: Oh, an btw, didn't get your script working boon, might be just me, but this shouldn't be the way the problem is fixed... It is IMHO a error in the page, and should be treated as such. (No offense ment!)
None taken, you are absolutely correct. :)  All the script does (or is meant to do) is exactly what you have suggested - it scans the page and replaces the non-breaking spaces used to separate the awards with normal spaces (actually, it uses a different kind of space since I ran into a problem with normal spaces too, but the point is it doesn't use non-breaking ones.)  It wasn't intended as a proper fix for the issue.

I am still not certain that Opera is correct in its display of the awards, although it's a very grey area.  You're right that the browser shouldn't count   as a place to wrap content, but in this case the content is contained within a fixed-width table cell - so is it okay to just ignore the fixed width and expand the cell like Opera does?  Given that browsers have historically treated table dimensions as suggestions at best this is probably correct behaviour, but it seems clear that the other browsers choose the lesser of two evils in this case and just wrap the content.