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When I enter a b y [z](https://duckduckgo.com) and a b y [z](https://duckduckgo.com) as comments, the two comments immediately below this post appear.

Here is a screenshot from Safari 7 on my Mac OS 10.9, in which it removed the space between the y and the z link.

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(In fact, I now notice that it also removed the hypen that usually separates user-name and time.)

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  • a b y z
    – user232555
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:17
  • a b y z
    – user232555
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:17
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    @JonK - this is just browser rendering. The whitespace is collapsed when viewed. See the source of the second comment - it has 2 spaces.
    – Oded
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:26
  • @Oded: When I look at the source of the second comment, I see 4 spaces - two between a and b, one between b and y, and one between y and the z link.
    – user232555
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:28
  • @RickyDemer - um. Exactly like you posted them then. Your whole post was about the double space, no?
    – Oded
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:31
  • I posted a screen shot of the two comments in my answer. If this is different from what you see, please clarify - a screen shot would be best, as well as browser and OS details.
    – Oded
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:37
  • @Oded Fair enough - I don't really work with HTML much so that's my new thing learned for the day - at least I got the status-bydesign part (sort of) right!
    – JonK
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:41
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    That can only be explained as a bug in how Safari renders things. Nothing Stack Exchange could do about that one. Your browser is blatantly rendering things incorrectly.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:41
  • Is it Safari 7 or 7.1? From what I can tell, the issue is specific to the browser, not much we can do if it doesn't render properly.
    – Oded
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:43
  • @Oded: It's 7.0.6. Also, how did you upload my screenshot to i.stack.imgur.com?
    – user232555
    Nov 15, 2014 at 23:47
  • We have an image upload built into the editor. I gave it the link to the actual image you uploaded and it did the rest. Did you try upgrading Safari to 7.1?
    – Oded
    Nov 16, 2014 at 8:07
  • Oh. I haven't tried upgrading yet.
    – user232555
    Nov 16, 2014 at 8:12
  • a a a
    – nicael
    Nov 16, 2014 at 11:16
  • +1, Same problem in Safari 7.1
    – nicael
    Nov 16, 2014 at 11:18
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    @Sha - I operate in an Apple free world ;) - will have others look at this.
    – Oded
    Nov 16, 2014 at 16:50

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To clarify what I see:

two first comments from the question

That's what browsers do when displaying whitespace. They collapse whitespace.

If you look at the HTML source for both comments, you will find that the spaces have been preserved.

First comment:

one space

Second comment:

two spaces

Now, looking at your screenshot, it is apparent that your browser is rendering incorrectly - why that is, I don't know. It could be something specific to your machine (or even just for now - if you reboot it might go), it could be something that is happening to everyone using the same OS/Browser versions.

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