Bug 19827

Summary: google search result has extraneous space in place of 'wbr'
Product: WebKit Reporter: Jungshik Shin <jshin>
Component: EvangelismAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED    
Severity: Normal CC: jensimmons, webkit
Priority: P2 Keywords: GoogleBug
Version: 525.x (Safari 3.1)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=detour+function+example&btnG=Search

Jungshik Shin
Reported 2008-06-30 10:44:25 PDT
1. Go to the url above 2. The first hit (as of today) is Detours: Binary Interception of Win32 Functions File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML import table can contain renamed import DLLs. and functions or entirely new DLLs and functions. For example, Coign [7] uses Detours to insert an ... research.microsoft.com/~galenh/ publications/huntusenixnt99.pdf - Similar pages Note that the last line (the url in green) has a space before 'publications'. Google search result emits <wbr> before 'publication' apparently to help browsers with line breaking. Firefox and IE take it just as a line breaking opportunity but Safari replaces <wbr> with a space. (tested on WIndows but expects Mac Safari to behave the same way)
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Jungshik Shin
Comment 1 2008-07-01 13:25:02 PDT
It seems that Google emits 'space' for Safari while it emits <wbr> for Firefox. So, Google needs to be 'persuaded' to either omit 'wbr'/space altogether (assuming webkit's line breaking handles edge cases like urls reasonably) or use 'wbr' for Safari as well.
mitz
Comment 2 2008-09-17 10:25:37 PDT
Is this fixed on the Google side now?
Jungshik Shin
Comment 3 2008-09-17 20:19:22 PDT
No, it's not. Somehow Safari 3.1 fails the 1st test at http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html However, webkit-trunk passes all the tests there.
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