<div dir="ltr">Having hyphenator.js on the site slows down the browsing experience immensely, especially on mobile. I know I personally avoid the <a href="http://dlang.org">dlang.org</a> site on my Galaxy Nexus and on my Nexus 7 because of this reason.<div>
<br></div><div>Since the whole web is right-aligned and users would much rather have a site that loads fast and without content flashes than a site with hyphenation, I believe the library should be removed.<div><br></div>
<div>I say this as someone who is a typography nut and loves hyphenation. A printed book without it is not worth buying. But the cost of implementing it in JS for web pages is too high. There's a reason why no major website uses this approach.</div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:27 AM, H. S. Teoh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx" target="_blank">hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:16:28AM -0500, captaindet wrote:<br>
> On 2013-07-15 20:48, Brad Anderson wrote:<br>
> >unfortunately, do not support CSS3 hyphens so they still use the slow<br>
> >hyphenator.js.<br>
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> pls remove hyphenator.js altogehter. i see everyone complaining about<br>
> it and no one wanting it. the words in the english language are<br>
> usually short enough so that hyphenation is not really necessary.<br>
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+1. If people are using browsers that don't support hyphenation, then so<br>
be it. They will just get slightly more line-wrapping, that's all. No<br>
harm done. This is too tiny a detail to pay such a big price (slow<br>
loading, flashing, scrolling disruption, etc.) for.<br>
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(I'm one of those people whose browsers don't support hyphenation. That<br>
doesn't make the site any less useful (I turned off JS on <a href="http://dlang.org" target="_blank">dlang.org</a><br>
because hyphenator.js is so annoying -- the only difference I noticed<br>
was that the site is significantly more usable that way). This is really<br>
a nice-to-have feature that doesn't deserve the price we're paying for<br>
it, not an indispensible feature.)<br>
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