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Firefox lets table overflow instead of breaking words at soft hyphens

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Petrux
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On http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm?id=2 , the table overflows into the right column because of long table headings. I inserted soft hyphens into them to help the browsers break the headings when needed. This seems to work in IE 8 and Google Chrome but not in Firefox.

On http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm?id=2 , the table overflows into the right column because of long table headings. I inserted soft hyphens into them to help the browsers break the headings when needed. This seems to work in IE 8 and Google Chrome but not in Firefox.

Modified by cor-el

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Morbus
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Yeah, same thing on my end. It seems like it's a difference of attitude in terms of implementing the standards. You should file a bug at bugzilla and let the devs know about this. See if it hasn't been file already. Remember that bugzilla is for bug work, not discussions or complaints.

Petrux
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Thanks for the directions Morbus, I had a feeling this might not be the right place for these kinds of issues. The bug was apparently known at Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418975 , though they don't seem to be in a hurry to fix it.

Modified by cor-el