Interesting condemnation of Web typography by comparison with TeX at lwn.net/Articles/662053/ - Web people, are we working on this stuff?

What's new in TeX, part 2

This is the second half of our look at how development around the venerable TeX document-preparation system has evolved in recent years. The first article dealt with TeX engines and packages that...

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@BrendanEich @sil Biggest takeaway seems to be desire for for better linebreaking algorithms. What else is important?

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@davidbaron @BrendanEich @sil you can do Knuth-Plass in javascript, and IE's justification and hyphenation engines seem pretty decent.
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@davidbaron @BrendanEich @sil (not that doing it in JavaScript is in any way optimal, as there's no good access to text metrics)