I wasn't aware of the orevious bug report. I'd say the obvious solution is to use something else that takes up zero space, e.g. a dummy <a /> tag.

In contrast to the previous story, I have almost valid skins now, and I'd like to get to 100% as soon as possible. Maybe the Antville developers like them and we can derive a new default layout from them (it's no problem to apply changes that make them look&feel like the current layout, with numerous improvements).

No dummy tags, I think this is not a very nice solution. I would rather use old tags than wrong tags.

Anonye with other ideas?

the solution isn't nice indeed, but it would be a quick work-around and not exactly harmful. it wouldn't change the saved content at all, but just change the representation a bit until we have a better solution.

I would rather use old tags than wrong tags

well, yes, but the problem isn't that the tag in question is old, but that it doesn't exist at all. using something that is a little odd but works is definitely better than using something that doesn't exist.

other ideas (bad ones): don't break long words at all and just set the overflow property in the skin to clip. (would look kind of crappy.) set an option that specifies how many ems the text should be wide and insert hard linebreaks at the apropriate positions. (would be rather hard to implement.) wait until the w3 gives us proper auto-hyphenation on web pages. (is something like that even planned?) use an older HTML version that still has the tag. (yeah, right.)

other ideas (good ones): don't have any. anyone else?