"Auto" code wrapping only partially works for browsers that don't support soft hyphens (it won't break long sequences of non-white-space characters and this often means you'll see very wide pages). In fact, flyingmoose's problem could well be the use of "auto" code wrapping.

For quite a long time, the only browser that supported ­ was IE6. Finally, some of the other browsers are catching up on this front. I've heard reports that the latest FireFox and latest Opera now support ­, though I haven't verified these claims.

See Re: Space or Soft Hyphens (see code wrap) to see if your browser supports soft hyphens.

I have a design for how to reformat <pre> tags similar to how "auto" code wrapping works, which will prevent most of the problems with <pre> tags making pages wide while still having them appear the same (if your window is wide enough).

I'll probably make this optional and it won't use &shy; unless you've enabled auto code wrapping. No, there is no schedule for when it will be available. (At the moment, I'm still rebuilding part of my PM development platform.)

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Explicit forum width (IE+) by tye
in thread Explicit forum width by flyingmoose

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