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Long_Word_Breaker

Breaks up long words, to keep them from making the page side-scroll

This GreaseMonkey extension finds long words in HTML pages
and inserts invisible breakpoints in them (HTML "<wbr>":http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html
elements) so that they can be broken across lines if necessary
(instead of stretching the screen).

_Backstory:_ A significant accessibility problem for people who
use large fonts (or small screens) is that long words will make the
screen side-scroll. That is, if your screen is only about forty
characters across, and you have a fifty-character URL (or a blob of
source code, or a long German word, etc), then that long text-string
will stretch the virtual screen so that you'll need to scroll sideways
back and forth to read it.</wbr>




Nov 13, 2006
BlueDrache User

Does not work as expected. See: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/20...

 
Aug 23, 2006
Chris3ne User

Hmmm. Restarted Firefox, and even though the script is enabled, it does nothing. I prefer this to ForceWrap, because it does segment words better, but I can't stick with it if it doesn't work as it's supposed to. :S

 
Aug 23, 2006
Chris3ne User

A particular forum thread was bugging me, did a search for "wrap" and a comment of yours on http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1847 led me here. I don't know much code, so how is this different from that one, may I ask? In any case, this worked perfectly. Thanks!

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