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#1 2013-04-02 09:25:49

philwareham
Core designer
From: Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Registered: 2009-06-11
Posts: 3,564
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Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

The preference ‘Prevent widowed words in article titles?’ should default to ‘No’ for all new installs in my opinion. With the trend towards responsive pages, having a non-breaking space in a title can totally ruin the page layout, forcing the the heading to spill outside of the container and introducing horizontal scroll.

I’ll change the Wiki docs and pophelp to note that this problem can occur, but this should be something you have to manually turn on, not turn off.

Widows are to be avoided in printed works, but they are just a fact of life on web pages. Using an ugly HTML hack to try to prevent them is bad practice in modern web design. And of course, for print CSS you can already use the widows rule (see here).

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#2 2013-04-02 10:47:14

colak
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

+1


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#3 2013-04-02 10:50:44

jstubbs
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From: Hong Kong
Registered: 2004-12-13
Posts: 2,395
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Agreed. +1

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#4 2013-04-02 11:10:56

springworks
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Registered: 2005-01-06
Posts: 172
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Good idea.

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#5 2013-04-02 13:13:51

douglgm
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From: Bristol
Registered: 2006-08-23
Posts: 182
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Agreed – would certainly avoid some potential confusion.

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#6 2013-04-02 16:09:04

towndock
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From: Oriental, NC USA
Registered: 2007-04-06
Posts: 329
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Yup

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#7 2013-04-02 18:36:44

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Good!

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#8 2013-04-04 09:55:03

philwareham
Core designer
From: Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Registered: 2009-06-11
Posts: 3,564
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

This was rectified by r5446

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#9 2013-04-04 12:49:58

gaekwad
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From: People's Republic of Cornwall
Registered: 2005-11-19
Posts: 4,241
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Late to the party, but +1.

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#10 2013-04-04 23:30:47

phiw13
Plugin Author
From: Japan
Registered: 2004-02-27
Posts: 3,165
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Re: Prevent widowed words in article titles? No.

Oh, thank you. It is was tiresome to flip that pref on every (new) install.


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