Comment by tasuki
5 days ago
> Sentence display width is something I pay attention to. For example sometimes I don't want 1 hanging word to have its own full line (a "hanger") because it looks messy. Other times I do want it because it helps break up a few paragraphs of similar length to make it easier to skim.
Isn't your website responsive? If it is, for how many different resolutions do you check this? I think I obsess about details, but thankfully not about this!
You should be able to use `text-wrap: pretty;` to eventually remove orphans. If you sometimes want them on purpose and sometimes avoid them, that's just weird. I'm sure this is a lost fight: it'll look different with different setups anyway. Different browser, different OS, different fonts, ... it's a lost battle.
> It helps reduce page load speeds for visitors and saves bandwidth for both the visitor and your server.
Mhm I just use apache's cache_dist[0]. It works fine out of the box, for all my myriads of websites. Yes sometimes there's a new file and a browser is stuck on the old version. Requires a hard refresh. Someone who doesn't know will see the old version. I don't particularly mind that.
I guess you're more of a perfectionist than I am.
[0]: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_cache_disk.html
> Isn't your website responsive?
It is but the max width is at a point where most folks on a tablet and desktop will see that width so I optimize for that. Mobile always looks ok in the end, but I don't think about how sentences wrap there.
> I guess you're more of a perfectionist than I am.
I try not to get hung up but seeing live previews doesn't take much extra time. The same with asset digesting, once it's set up it happens automatically without thinking.
There's also the mental tax of knowing you're using something semi-annoying all the time, that bugs me if I know it can be improved.