Have you ever encountered bug 9101?
That bug is about adding support for ­ a.k.a. soft hyphen to Gecko.
IE supports it. So does Opera. Safari does. It's in the specs.
Mozilla does not support it.
So three questions arise:
Who's able to get this implemented?
How much does it cost to get this person or team going?
Who'd be willing to spend some bucks on it?
Last edited by stmoebius on February 21st, 2005, 10:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
This is something I'd be willing to throw a couple of bucks at. If I knew either C/C++ or XUL, I'd be working at fixing this right now. Since all I know is Perl, I'd be willing to trade bugfixes with another project, or contribute funds to get someone on this.
I don't know that it's a serious bug, per se: but it is an important feature for anyone speaking langauges other than english. Certain German sites are rendered very wide because Firefox/Mozilla proper do not support the soft hyphen.
And, personally, Opera for Linux is not an option for me -- ad-supported wares are not allowed in my corp. environment; and the lack of soft-hyphen support is keeping Mozilla out of the running for the corporate browser standard.
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