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.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by flaming....@mac.com on 2 Apr 2013 at 11:40
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
flaming....@mac.com
on 2 Apr 2013 at 11:40