[0]: https://matklad.github.io/2026/02/14/justifying-text-wrap-pr...
Unfortunately there's no live HTML demo to inspect, just the images.
Playing around with it, seems that Safari simply stops hyphenating entirely when when text-wrap is pretty, regardless of whether it's justified or not. (If you smoothly resize the browser width, it makes it pretty easy to tell if hyphens ever come up.)
Which means the image on the left seems like it might be the wrong image?
And now I wonder if text-wrap: pretty is supposed to avoid hyphenation? Are hyphens not pretty? Or is it just a partial implementation by Apple, that they haven't gotten around to supporting hyphenation for it yet?
While the broader point is fine, the example to me is just bad to me: very narrow column with a lot of hyphens and identical width/no variety making it harder to anchor your eye (though colored letters are awesome and play this role)
Ok, bad rag is bad, but the ancient text goes overboard in the other direction. This looks close to the form-over-function vibe.
> WebKit devs, you are awesome for shipping this feature ahead of everyone else...
Um, no? Chrome shipped this feature in 2023: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-wrap-pretty
Safari isn't early shipping this, they're late. Though not as late as Firefox, admittedly.
In Safari, it’s a very different look.
Caniuse claims it's supported in Chrome: https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_text-wrap_pretty
But you're right, it very clearly isn't working.
Is it a regression? Did it break and nobody noticed?
albert_e•41m ago
There is no mention of it in the post. If words (in any language) can be arbitrarily long and columns can be arbitrarily narrow, we will need to solve for this anyway.
Even without those extremes, I feel that there will always be place for the good old hypen when displaying or printing text for the main purpose of readability. No need to max out on perfect "look" in every application of text.
In fact in many places one might even find columns with jagged right edges more readable -- letting you visually distinguish each line from the one above/below it easily by length alone -- and may even lend a certain aesthetic character that is the opposite of mechanical / boring / machine produced / sterile.
Of course not negating the need for a well implemented method without bugs to justify text correctly when the use case demands it.
ameliaquining•31m ago
notpushkin•17m ago