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I propose to set the preference "Justify paragraphs" to on by default (for anonymous and new users - of course current users won't be affected, as usual), because it looks more professional on my opinion.
Any objections?
Rotem Liss wrote:
I propose to set the preference "Justify paragraphs" to on by default (for anonymous and new users - of course current users won't be affected, as usual), because it looks more professional on my opinion.
Any objections?
This is just for the English Wikipedia, right? I'd imagine Wikipedias in some other scripts might not appreciate the justification feature as much. Before turning it on at en:, it might be a good idea to check whether the justification interferes with taxoboxes and other floating elements like images.
On 11/8/06, Rotem Liss rotemliss_net@fastmail.fm wrote:
I propose to set the preference "Justify paragraphs" to on by default (for anonymous and new users - of course current users won't be affected, as usual), because it looks more professional on my opinion.
Any objections?
Yes. Justification on the Internet generally sucks, because there's no hyphenation. A ragged right border looks better than lines near long words having way too much whitespace, which is why few sites use justification.
Simetrical wrote:
On 11/8/06, Rotem Liss rotemliss_net@fastmail.fm wrote:
I propose to set the preference "Justify paragraphs" to on by default (for anonymous and new users - of course current users won't be affected, as usual), because it looks more professional on my opinion.
Any objections?
Yes. Justification on the Internet generally sucks, because there's no hyphenation. A ragged right border looks better than lines near long words having way too much whitespace, which is why few sites use justification.
Plus, you need to set some sort of threshold; a line which only has a few words on it ends up looking very spaced out, like this.
On 11/9/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Plus, you need to set some sort of threshold; a line which only has a few words on it ends up looking very spaced out, like this.
Not possible to specify an explicit threshold on our side (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop). Browsers will of course pick some sensible value, but that traditionally applies only to lines immediately preceding a line break, not lines in the middle of text. Those can consist of even two words, I think, separated by nearly a line of whitespace, if sufficiently long words came before and after. Again, that's what hyphenation is for, but no browser I know of hyphenates in real time as of now.
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