Comments on: Primal Tweet http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Fri, 10 May 2013 11:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: wes http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-386210 wes Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:26:35 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-386210 jsutcliffe, your tonsils look fine to me. ;)

]]> By: Ray http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-247787 Ray Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:41:35 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-247787 fitzage likes to break twitter all the time. He’s been doing it for months now. Nana-Nana-Boo-Boo

]]> By: Chris Hester http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-247766 Chris Hester Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:32:40 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-247766 Is there a max-word-length command in CSS? Eg:

max-word-length:70ch;

The above code would specify that no words would be longer than 70 characters. If so, a hyphenation or overflow rule would also be needed.

]]> By: jsutcliffe http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246897 jsutcliffe Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:00:46 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246897 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Just testing ;)

]]> By: Rob http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246353 Rob Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:14:25 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246353 Would word-wrap: break-word;mot solve it?

]]> By: Angelo http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246327 Angelo Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:15:26 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246327 It’s interesting how different services choose to handle this and other bulletproofing concerns.

Pownce for example doesn’t break the page layout, it just hides the overflow. The AIR interface shows the whole string, and wraps it appropriately.

]]> By: Christopher Hester http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246296 Christopher Hester Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:57:48 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246296 Flickr has also been known to spill over when long texts of unbroken characters are used for photo titles. Sometimes I also see text from one title flowing on top of an adjacent title.

Do browsers suck at not automatically hyphenating words too long to fit a given space? Or do the programmers suck for not allowing for this problem when they coded their input forms? These are the questions we need answers to!

]]> By: Alex Vincent http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246103 Alex Vincent Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:08:23 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246103 Your attention please… please yell if I have your attention.
http://www.blueman.com/multimedia/video/index.php?vid=yourattentionlive&q=hi
:-)

]]> By: Dan Baroody http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246088 Dan Baroody Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:21:52 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246088 It’s nice to know that the CSS jedi could bring twitter to its knees.

]]> By: André Luís http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246080 André Luís Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:53 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246080 Well, I can say that Netvibes passed the test. It didn’t show the entire primal scream, but it didn’t break the layout. :D Yay!

]]> By: m!les http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246079 m!les Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:49:30 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246079 I saw the tweet in my Twitterific, and didn’t quite understand it. But upon going to twitter.com, I thought that, surely, it was a remark on Twitter not having bullet-proof CSS. But it wasn’t. Your real reason was good, too.

]]> By: Bobby Kircher http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246077 Bobby Kircher Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:42:09 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246077 The individual display of the tweet is friggin hilarious. :)

]]> By: Jason Friesen http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246074 Jason Friesen Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:20:37 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246074 Figured you’d be posting an explanation. As usual, Meyer does not disappoint.

]]> By: Laura Whitehead http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246073 Laura Whitehead Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:20:18 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/15/primal-tweet/#comment-246073 Just loved your post about Twitter! I’m a mad twitterer too – but great to read others scream primally too on there!
Laura

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