• H. S. Teoh (12/12) Sep 16 2012 Just out of curiosity: I noticed today that the navigation links on the
• Jacob Carlborg (6/13) Sep 16 2012 I suggested adding zero-with space characters to allow the browser

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

Just out of curiosity: I noticed today that the navigation links on the
left-hand column of dlang.org have U+200B inserted after "."'s (such as
after "std."). What's the reason for this?

Incidentally, my browser is displaying it as an unknown character (a
browser bug, probably, or a screwed-up font) but I'm just curious about
why this is needed here. Shouldn't it just be straight ASCII, like
"std.algorithm" instead of "std.<U+200B>algorithm"?


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Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-09-17 04:57, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 Just out of curiosity: I noticed today that the navigation links on the
 left-hand column of dlang.org have U+200B inserted after "."'s (such as
 after "std."). What's the reason for this?

 Incidentally, my browser is displaying it as an unknown character (a
 browser bug, probably, or a screwed-up font) but I'm just curious about
 why this is needed here. Shouldn't it just be straight ASCII, like
 "std.algorithm" instead of "std.<U+200B>algorithm"?

I suggested adding zero-with space characters to allow the browser 
breaking long links on multiple lines. This makes the experience on 
mobile devices a lot better.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg