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Being the impatient type (read: stupid), I overdid it a bit yesterday, and with 2 slipped discs I now find myself virtually confined to bed. I am dividing my time between reading Hemingway and tinkering with my blog. I have a low boredom threshold which means I can’t focus on either for any great period of time.

My tinkering, as usual, took me into murky waters and, inevitably into problems with cross-browser compatibility. I like the idea of using little icons to identify what happens when you click on a link, for example a pdf file. This works a treat… until your link spans more than one word and those words occur at a line break. This is actually ok for all browsers except Internet Explorer. What a surprise.

There’s not really a fix which I liked - I don’t want hacks, or IE-only code - so I just put a non-breaking space between the words. Check my previous post for an example. I understand it’s not technically a bug, but wouldn’t it be nice if pages could look the same anywhere? If anyone has a decent solution to this, please let me know.