Date: 11/13/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, database, web

I'm currently having an argument debate at work whether it's worthwhile to nitpickingly fix uneven type rags on the web (in a fixed-width div) via line breaks, forced justification, adding spaces, changing type sizes, changing word and letter spacing with CSS (sometimes on individual lines and words), changing the size of the box, etc. much the way one would do on a print piece. My argument is that type renders with slight differences across browsers and platforms, and that trying to manipulate it so precisely is not only insanely time consuming and has to be re-done with every new page -and- every copy change change, it may not look precisely the same across different browsers and different default fonts, or even if people increase type sizes above the default, and if the type doesn't render exactly the way it does on our screens, micro-adjustments may cause even more awkward rags or spacing.

For a large, dynamic, database-driven site, of course this would be even harder, but we're working on it for our small, static corporate site of maybe 10-20 pages that we don't expect to be updated every time. My argument is that it'll end up being a lot of time spent on something that may not work everywhere or backfire, but I'm being outvoted. I would really appreciate any experience or advice dealing with this issue, aside from making the whole thing an image or a Flash file.

I'm posting this in both webdesign and graphicdesign since it's both aesthetic and technical.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330777.html