Justified Text Readability
Comments criticize the poor readability of justified text in web browsers due to inadequate hyphenation, primitive line-breaking algorithms, and uneven spacing, while suggesting fixes like CSS hyphenation, reader mode, or avoiding justification altogether.
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text-align: justify ruins the readability of the text. Won't ever work until browsers become much better at hyphenation.
Try Reader Mode, it fixes the awkward word and line spacing.
Only if you stop using fully-justified text first.
It’s because the primitive line-breaking algorithm used by browers, combined with the lack of hypenation in most cases, leads to a poor result, especially in narrow columns. Look up “greedy line breaking”.
They could also change word-spacing and line breaks.
(weasel word) people think manual line-breaking is the thing that needs fixing :-).
Enabling automatic CSS hyphenation would reduce the often rather wide word gaps in justified text.
It's a cool idea, but the lack of a space between regular words and words wrapped in a is driving my typo-radar nuts
Narrow column + no hyphenation + justified = typesetting disaster, especially with the crude type handling in web browsers.
Also the author hasn't turned on hyphenation. It's a "rule" that when you justify text you should use hyphenation. If not, the spacing between words will be very uneven as can be seen in the text.The author should try adding language to the HTML tag (``) and setting `hyphens: auto` in CSS. Still hyphenation in browser is of a lower quality than you will find in a book with good typesetting.I played around with the page and, to me, left-aligned tex