URL line breaking inconsistent across browsers, is this a job for Normalize?

[jkupczak]

Just noticed this today and was wondering if it was something Normalize was capable of addressing, and if so (and perhaps more importantly) SHOULD it address it. This is probably not a big deal but I noticed it was inconsistent across the browsers so I thought I'd bring it up.

Here's an example of what I mean. I blew up the font-size of a long URL so that it would fill your screen.

http://codepen.io/jimmykup/full/JzrAw

In Firefox and Opera the URL breaks the URL at the slashes. However, Webkit and IE don't break the URL at all unless you throw a hyphen in there (and perhaps other characters).

Just thinking out loud!

[necolas]

Thanks for this. I think it's best to avoid trying to tamper with general word-breaking behaviour. We tried it a lot in HTML5 Boilerplate and there were always some edge-cases that made it a problem. Furthermore, I suspect there isn't going to be a way to have URLs in particular break at the same places - it looks like browsers have different methods for breaking strings. This is something probably best left to developers to tackle when necessary.