RE: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages

Subject: RE: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Pro TechWriter" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:19:25 -0600

Pro TechWriter wrote:

> I wasn't clear on one fact: the column of text is an image, not text.
That
> in itself is a problem as well--no way to make the text larger.

An image? An image?? I was wondering how this text ended up being
hyphenated and why the column was a fixed width. I never would have
guessed it was an image.

Hyphenation is bad. Fixed-width columns are bad. But those pale in
comparison to the awfulness of using an image of a column of text.

Don't waste your time gathering evidence about hyphenation. Replace that
image with real text that wraps (in a column that resizes with the
window), and the hyphenation issue will silently go away.

IMHO, that is.

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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References:
Re: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages: From: Keith Hood
Re: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages: From: Pro TechWriter

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