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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I don't see the non-breaking space issue as a tragedy, myself. I've always felt that ebook makers who use paragraphs with only non-breaking spaces (or a non-breaking space followed by a br tag) for vertical spacing were shooting themselves in the foot all along. This change just confirms that.
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I certainly agree that it's the wrong way to add vertical space. Like I said, the proper way in CSS is with margin-bottom or margin-top. In Word, you would use Space After or Before, and that would translate to the proper CSS in exported HTML.
But that's not the primary use of the nonbreaking space. That space is meant to hold together phrases that should not be split into two lines. Every Kindle has supported this from the beginning. And now it's gone. So, you now can have line breaks in the middle of "OS X," or "7 inches." And that's just going to look dumb. It's bad enough that we haven't been able to use the nonbreaking hyphen on Kindle. This just makes it worse.
Aaron