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Discussion on: 7 cases where we can use HTML instead of CSS

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GrahamTheDev

+1 to that!

URLs and German (with the beautiful mega long words that break your UI when you try to implement i18n!)...I am sure that is what <wbr> was designed for, just those two use cases! 😋

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Nah, pretty sure URLs were an afterthought. <wbr> was added just for German i18n.

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Roel de Brouwer

Or Dutch. But in the Netherlands many people have the English disease where they write spaces when they should not. Sometimes this unintentionally totally changes the meaning of a sentence. F.e. "zoete witte wijnprofessor".

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Danny Engelman

Niets mis mee.
Is een blanke vinoloog die universiteitsstudentjes wat zijig lesgeeft