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Re:Making Software by wavemode on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:38AM (#43716652)
Beause in print you would typically use your publishing software to adjust various things, like where hypenated word breaks should happen. This is much trickier in digital media, and usually just isn't done, resulting in ugly word spacing.
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Re:Making Software by bsoles on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:36AM (#43717509)
> Justified text is bad on the web. ...so right ragged text is always more readable.

I disagree. I like justified text on the web as well as in print. To me, jagged right hand side of the text column is more disturbing than uneven spaces between words. So, you cannot universally declare that justified text is an accessibility issue.

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Re:Making Software by layer8 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:00AM (#43717902)
Accessibility issue doesn’t imply universality. Ideally, this should be a user preference setting.
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Re:Making Software by lenkite on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:30PM (#43730132)
I believe this will be fixed by this year - you have smart hyphenation going to come natively in CSS. It was always possible using the JS hyphenator lib.
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