Comments on: Two Hidden Features New in Firefox 3

By: PB

PB — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:31:09 +0000

Thanks so much for this article. I was tearing my hair out trying to make the inline work in FF. For me, sitehatchery’s code

display:block;
float:left;

worked both in IE and FF so that’s the one I used.

By: mathieuf

mathieuf — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:02:19 +0000

I am so glad to see soft hyphens. I used them a lot in the old days of TeX programming, and missed them in HTML. I hope the search tools know how to correctly deal with them, or will be made to.

By: jonas-e

jonas-e — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:59:17 +0000

Wow. I only just started webdesigning a couple of years ago – and I was APPALLED when I found out that soft hyphens were not an option in html. How could anyone ever think of NOT including that? Thanks for finally supporting the obviously necessary! :o)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:57:21 +0000

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:21:13 +0000

So, why does sitepoint.com feel the need to redefine decades’ worth of cursor behaviour, and force a normal arrow (instead of a ‘dog bone’) when hovering over text?

Thanks for pointing out this bug! We’ve now fixed it.

By: Rachel Green

Rachel Green — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:08:18 +0000

Helpful and useful

By: bloodofeve

bloodofeve — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:18:20 +0000

The inline block is going to prove very useful for me as I build lots of compliant photograph albums for clients by hand and have found it really frustrating when the layout was affected by longer pieces of text. I can now manage the layout with out having to add larger height attributes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:06:54 +0000

So, why does sitepoint.com feel the need to redefine decades’ worth of cursor behaviour, and force a normal arrow (instead of a ‘dog bone’) when hovering over text? Do they think they know better than untold hours of GUI research, convention and user expectations? Just curious.

By: percy

percy — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:00:08 +0000

Isalberg,
I believe you can use WBR for that… nonstandard though.

By: Shawn Fumo

Shawn Fumo — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:43:36 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up! I’ve had to wrangle often enough with floats to really appreciate the inline blocks.