And the text would flow so much more nicely...
Of course, this might seem frivoulous now, but keep in mind: (a)
HTML will have a lifespan of at least a decade... what seems like a
serious challenge--ie writing good toolkits and widgets, etc.--now
will seem trivial in retrospect in 2-3 years, (b) machines can
only get faster, and hyphenation isn't really that CPU expensive.
I remember when we were working on X10 (no, that isn't a typo...):
Widgets seemed daunting, and only a "select few" were competent to
write them. Now, you run out, buy the O'Reilly books, and in a
few weeks you can have a production quality widget that will do just
about anything you can imagine...
Think BIG.
There's no other way.
-Philip
P.S. Abigail: that's not a very Dutch name, is it? Hmm....