Bad typography on the Web doesn't exactly kill people (even if it is believed to be 95% of what web design is) but it can still make widows - typographic widows, that is. To quote Shaun Inman:
For those who don’t know, in typesetting, a widow is a single word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph and is considered bad style.
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Helping website owners to fix the most frequent errors automagically will hopefully make online texts more readable and stylish as well. Mr. Inman came up with a simple yet perfectly working solution: replace the regular whitespace between last two words of a title with a non-breaking space (i.e. entity) - and released it in a form of an easy-to-use Wordpress plugin. It is now also ported for Movable Type, Expression Engine, Textpattern etc.
Today I make Widon't available for Symphony and other XML/XSLT-based engines via an XSL template. Read on for full source.
