rendering of ­ aka &#173?

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 05:53, Thorsten Schnebeck wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> this is more for the khtml-guys but lists.kde.org did not show me a better
> suided ML :-}
>
> As I was searching for a common way to use a soft hyphen in html I found
> http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/fb/shy173.html
> khtml seems to render "shy" but always and not with any font. khtml
> supports the deprecated tag <wbr> but today "shy" alone seems to be more
> common.  I did not found any bug report about "shy" so I wonder if this is
> something worth to suppport?
>
It is, we just need to implement it :)

When porting the bidi-changes from WebCore I also looked at the soft-hyphen 
implementation in WebCore. In the end I chose not to port it, because I did 
not like the way it worked. I am still trying to think of ways that would 
work better.

`Allan