Bug 183615

Summary:	Mozilla totally ignores soft hyphens
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	JW <ohtmvyyn>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description JW 2006-03-02 10:47:53 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows; U; AIIEEEE!; Win98; Windows 98; en-US; Gecko masquerading as IE; should it matter?; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

Description of problem:
All soft hyphens are totally ignored by Mozilla.
Normally the &shy; character is treated as a soft hyphen and can be used to cause long words to be split across lines (in a table, for example).

Other browsers like IE seem to adhere more strictly to the HTML standards.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create some html with soft hyphens
2.Stumped?
3.Ok, here is a silly example.
<table width="5">
<tr>
<td>
Averylongwordxxxxx&shy;xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&shy;xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
</td>
</tr>
</table>
View this with Mozilla and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  

Actual Results:  Mozilla will not hyphenate the word.
Microsoft Internet Explorer will hyphenate the word.


Expected Results:  Mozilla should recognise soft hyphens


Additional info:

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2006-10-31 03:20:21 UTC

Tracked upstream at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9101