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Re:Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users by Semiapies on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @04:21PM (#2145197)
How could you use the innocent non-breaking space for such evil?

More seriously - is anything like that used in the wild? I'm just trying to figure out why they gave a suggestion to stop doing something that it takes such improbable work-arounds to do in the first place. Double-spacing after sentences sticks out like a sore thumb in proportional fonts.

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Re:Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users by isleyaardvark on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @04:32PM (#2145238)
I seem to remember seeing a WYSIWYG text editor add those nbsps when there was more than one space in a row, but I could be mistaken.
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Re:Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users by ams6110 on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:04PM (#2145391)
Yes, at least some of them do.
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Re:Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users by prawn on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:52PM (#2145636)
Leaving some clients to use nbsps in place of tables or tabs to try and layout columns, bullet lists, etc. Eek!
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Re:Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users by nborgo on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @04:53PM (#2145342)
I think there might be Wordpress addons that do this. It looks like Patrick's blog (http://www.kalzumeus.com/) uses one and I've seen a few other blogs with the same thing. It's annoying.
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