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Posted by Ben C on 04/25/07 20:55
On 2007-04-25, Jon Slaughter <Jon_Slaughter@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Bergamot" <bergamot@visi.com> wrote in message
> news:5990qmF2jra6eU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>>>
>>> I basically don't want to have any horizontal scrolling
>>> but no clipping either. I want the text to wrap when its to long.
>>>
>>> http://www.jonslaughter.com
>>
>> As long as you have that excessively long, unbroken line of text you
>> will have horizontal scrolling. How to deal with something like this has
>> been discussed many times before. Google the archives and read about it.
>> The short answer, however, is there is no reliable client-side way to do
>> what you want, you need to do something server-side.
>>
>
> wtf? This isn't true?
It is true. Browsers do not break text other than at proper
text-breaking points (i.e. spaces mostly for languages like English).
IE provides some proprietary style properties for breaking the Unicode
line-breaking rules, but they are not in CSS 2.1. Some have been
proposed for CSS 3.
> I see it happening all the time in browsers that do not use any server
> side... and if it was server side how would it respond to a browsers
> resizing its window?
I've never seen it.
>>> My code is very convoluted
>>
>> Your code is a train wreck. I find it ironic that you have that notice
>> about only supporting "compliant" browsers, but your code doesn't come
>> close to validating, uses a transitional DOCTYPE, and is riddled with IE
>> conditional comments. You should start over, with HTML 4.01 Strict.
>>
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> I'll validate and fix errors when I'm finished with it... It works in FF and
> IE7 and thats all that matters at this point. I'm not going to validate the
> code every 3 seconds to please you and I'm sure as all not going to start
> over at this point. I will once I finish the site completely and have
> learned much more so that when I do start over I'll be in a better position
> to design it better.
>
> I use conditional comments because IE fucking sucks... simple as that. I
> want a certain effect and I have gotten it. I'm not going to waste my time
> perfecting something that doesn't contribute anything to anything. If your
> so obsessed with perfect code then I'll let you do my web site for me and
> you can perfect it until you get cancer and die.
You're a real ray of sunshine.
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