Wish this project great success!

For anyone else reading this: make sure you click on the "controls & metrics" at the bottom to try out all the options (such as comparing with your browser's "text-wrap: pretty"); it's really cool!

This is great, wish that browsers would implement a better algorithm.

Also good execution with the demo page.

[0] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40270471 [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJFD8nAUuiUX6ArFZQqQo8yT...

The numbers were better than I hoped. A full ~5k-word essay justified in about 280ms, and ~36KB gzipped including the en-US patterns. And the output is the part that sold me. The columns look like typesetting rather than CSS, which is the whole thing I'd been grumbling about.

The only snag I hit: a floated initial letter (drop cap) trips it — the first line ignores the float and overflows the gutter. Excluding that paragraph and leaving it on native justify renders perfectly, so it's cosmetic to work around, but a first-class exclusion selector would be lovely. I'll file an issue with the details and our measurements.

Best part: this experiment exposed that our sheets are currently set ragged right, which no printer in 1787 would have tolerated. Your library may be what finally makes us historically honest. Test page for context: federalistreader.org/papers/10/

Thank you for building this!

Questions, from someone who wants this to work:

* Does Justif do its own hyphenation (Liang patterns?) or lean on the browser's? And is there a way to feed it exceptions for unusual or archaic spellings?

* How does it behave at narrow measures, say 35–40ch columns? That's where Knuth-Plass should shine most, but it's also where badness compounds fastest.

* What's the reflow cost on long documents (5–10k words) when the container resizes or the user scales the text — full re-run or incremental?

* Any thoughts on coexisting with text-wrap: pretty as browsers slowly grow real paragraph-level breaking?

Congrats on shipping this. I miss producing documents with TeX!