Surfin' Safari

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This excellent blog entry showed up in my trackback a while ago. It basically explains how soft hyphens are supposed to work on the Web and points out that Safari always renders soft hyphens even when they don't end up breaking a line.

I thought about just taking the Mozilla route and punting on soft hyphens (i.e., changing KHTML to always hide them), but it turned out to be no harder to just make KHTML work properly with them the way IE6 and Opera do, so I'm pleased to report that KHTML's soft hyphen behavior now matches those browsers.