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Long words break screen width

 
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As discovered by Slashdot trolls several years ago, if you enter a single

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-...

the site doesn't know how to break it and the discussion window scrolls off into infinity (or at least the length of the URL).

 

 

 

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By jani on 2006-10-02 04:10
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Thanks...

Mon, 2006-10-02 17:04

...for the demonstration...

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Did Slashdot...

Tue, 2006-10-17 15:25

ever mention how they solved this?

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Got it...

Tue, 2006-10-17 18:48

All textareas now wrap words but wont break html...

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