== A Firefox CSS irritation

I'm not going to fault Firefox for not supporting the [[CSS 2.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CSS21-20050613]] '_word-wrap: pre-wrap_',
no matter [[how convenient PreProblem]] it would be for me if it did.
Especially since CSS 2.1 is not yet a standard, merely a late stage
working draft. But I am annoyed that Firefox doesn't support the CSS2
'_display: compact_', since I could have used it just now.

'_display: compact_' is classically used (in that it is right there
in the [[CSS2 spec
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/]] as [[an example
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/visuren.html#compact]]) to
create <DL> lists where the <DT> term is on the same line as the start
of the <DD> definition (or definitions, since you can have more than
one). But with Firefox not supporting this, your only real option for
the same visual appearance is a table.

(Please don't suggest [[floats CSSIrritation]].)

The Bugzilla bug is [[#180468
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180468]], open since 2002.
Mozilla not supporting _<dl compact>_ is the impressively ancient
[[#2055 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2055]] from 1998,
marked WONTFIX.

(Firefox is hardly alone in not supporting _display: compact_, judging
from [[here http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html]] or [[here
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html]]; I believe that this is
why the [[CSS 2.1]] working draft quietly drops it. However, support
may be on the uptick; the KHTML engine, used by Konqueror and Apple's
Safari, seems to support it.)