Earlier this week I ran across two different discussions of hyphenation and justification (H&J) on the Web. First, A List Apart article addressed the use of H&J and the soft hyphen to create fully-justified text on the Web (The Look That Says Book by Richard Fink). Then About.com Guide Jennifer Krynin touched on the subject in her article on Widows and Orphans in Web Design where she recommends against manual hyphenation or the use of scripts that automatically insert soft hyphens. What's your take? Would you like to see and read more fully-justified text or at least more even line endings with ragged right text using soft hyphens on the Web -- even if it means sometimes running across a few stray hyphens? As a Web designer what do you think about H&J on the Web? Vote in the poll and sound off in the comments.
Question? Why do you use — instead of — (the long dash alt 0151)?
Your supposed to be the expert!
@Ralph: Because typing — is faster when I’m cranking out quick blog posts day after day. I use — in emails, in Facebook entries, and on Twitter too.
I’ll use — (it’s called an em dash) in articles, usually.