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There are also opinions that text justifying is a "crime". Some (http://line25.com/articles/10-usability-crimes-you-really-shouldnt-commit http://line25.com/ar
by ancymon 16y ago
There are also opinions that text justifying is a "crime".
Some (http://line25.com/articles/10-usability-crimes-you-really-shouldnt-commit http://line25.com/articles/10-usability-crimes-you-really-sh...) say that justified text is hard to read for Dyslexic users.
Others (http://www.v7n.com/forums/web-usability/42975-justify-not-justify-question.html#post511927 http://www.v7n.com/forums/web-usability/42975-justify-not-ju...) claim that ragged right side can help "keeping place" in the text. (but why then the books are justified?)
Anyway because of that and because it is troublesome to implement justification correctly I think adding those soft-hyphens isn't worth a trouble.
- ugh 16y agoIt’s not so bad if you use hyphenation appropriately. Which, as the submission explains, is sort of doable on the web but has serious downsides. What you would really want is a fancy justification algorithm like the one InDesign uses (it takes into account not just the current line but the whole paragraph and it avoids, among other things, white rivers in the text) with lots of knobs to turn. That’s currently just not possible on the web which is why justification is often not such a good idea even if you can find workarounds. But it’s certainly no crime. (All books, newspapers and magazines do it.)