Better Web Typography with Spaces and Hyphens

One of the minor irritants of building websites is the lack of proper hyphenation and word-wrapping. Browsers don’t have the same level of text-flow smarts that InDesign or LaTeX have.

This has been discussed a few places, notably A List Apart’s article on dashes and typography, but they all end by saying that hyphenation and word spacing isn’t very well supported by browsers.

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