SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 15, 2026Daily.dev

Justifying text-wrap: pretty

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Safari shipped text-wrap: pretty in 2025, bringing intelligent line-breaking algorithms to web typography after decades of relying on greedy algorithms. While this represents progress toward beautiful web typography comparable to print standards, a bug exists when combining it with text-align: justify, causing excessive whitespace between words due to implementation details in the dynamic programming approach.

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