Posted by Ben C on 06/24/07 10:12

On 2007-06-24, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article <slrnf7r6i3.f27.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
> Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:
>
>> On 2007-06-23, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> > (just btw, I discovered that iCab breaks the line after // in the
>> > left cell and wraps the www bit! unless one gives a big explicit
>> > width to the table.)
>>
>> It does that even when the viewport is wide enough to fit everything
>> without any linebreaks? That is odd.
>>
>
> Indeed it is. No, space was not the issue at all. I can open
>
><http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/display.html>
>
> in iCab full wide on my desktop which is 3,776 px wide and it
> still wraps after the "//" !
>
> But I have just this mo taken a further look and I notice it does
> _not_ wrap under some text size clicks... (nothing to do with
> available browser width). And investigating closer (I have a huge
> range of text size clicks available on iCab) it appears that it
> is in the minority (3 or 4 in about 14) that it wraps. So I
> guess, it wraps most of the time. I might write to the icab
> maker about this (he is very clever and cluey about CSS and will
> probably shed light on it considering some of his past replies to
> me.)

Well let us know if there is any rationale to it. It looks like it's
just a bug.

It might be trying to make the two table columns similar widths but
there's no reason to do that-- you haven't set td { width: 50%; } or
anything.

> I guess, writing this on a Sunday morning, looks bad. I mean, it
> is not like it is the most important investigation a being can
> make. One of my most riveting, in a previous slow period of life,
> was The Desert:
>
><http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/display.html>

Did you mean a different URL?

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