I'm more skeptical of the benefit of auto-hyphenation than the author is; it's been my experience that even with a proper hyphenation dictionary, you get some w

I'm more skeptical of the benefit of auto-hyphenation than the author is; it's been my experience that even with a proper hyphenation dictionary, you get some weird hyphenations that you want to manually undo (or force). Which means that if you're working with print, where you can do those corrections/fixes, hyphenation is great; let the algorithms work, do your little bit of fine-tuning, and it's good. But on the web, you can't do your fine-tuning, so it's auto or nothing -- and "nothing"/unjustified text typically has less annoying failure modes than auto-hyphenated/justified text does. And I think the author is flat wrong about preferring unstyled content flashes over delayed rendering of content that's waiting for a font. The unstyled flashes are massively distracting and disorienting to a reader; the delayed rendering just makes it seem like the page is a bit slow to finish loading.