This situation arises all the time in real-world web design. Say you’ve got a navigation menu that occupies 25% of the width of the page. At small enough browser window sizes, a particularly long word in one of your menu items will either protrude messily from your menu into another part of the page, or force the menu to increase its width, possibly breaking your page layout.
— Kevin Yank on Firefox 3’s support for soft hyphens and inline blocks. (via Todd Dominey)
