Bug 19827 – google search result has extraneous space in place of 'wbr'

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: CONFIGURATION CHANGED
• Component: Evangelism

[Jungshik Shin]

1. Go to the url above
2. The first hit (as of today) is 

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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)

[Jungshik Shin]

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. 

Is this fixed on the Google side now?

[Jungshik Shin]

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.