• @Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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      312 months ago

      Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose

        • Sentient Loom
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          202 months ago

          Maybe the boss said, “Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post.”

        • Dark Arc
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          2 months ago

          To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that’s what’s happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).

      • @bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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        132 months ago

        The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

        Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.

      • Prison Mike
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        102 months ago

        I think it’s a CSS issue. Word wrapping won’t break apart the amount because it’s considered one “word.”

        There are ways to address it though.

        Source: I’m a full stack web application developer

      • @latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        Yepyep, did the same on mine, I just zoomed the page out.

        Honestly, really hope they did this on purpose, although I’ve seen plenty of cases where someone forgot to scale the text to Mobile and it went careening off-screen.