Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/25/07 21:09

Scripsit JWS:

> But IMHO
> it would be better if a (language-sensitive) word-breaking
> algorithm would be applied first (and then, if necessary, followed
> by a letter-spacing algorithm). Word processors have had automatic
> word-breaking for ages; why not browsers?

Who knows? They just didn't bother? Word division is not trivial, and _good_
word division software can cost real money. For many languages, large
hyphenation dictionaries are needed for good results. Besides, even if a
browser supported just one hundred languages, for example, there would be
quite some code.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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