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by egypturnash 1146 days ago
I just checked the source and it's not that. It's not a bad decision with regards to text justification as far as I can see, either. Might just be some broken kerning in the font it's serving up, this page is a dense thicket of machine-generated markup and I really do not want to investigate any further:

<p id="viewer-9ptf9" class="mm8Nw _1j-51 WkT0MK _1FoOD _3M0Fe T3Ond1 WkT0MK public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr">

<span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr">

<span>When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are technologies which can track this behavior and trigger a “mouse-out” alert. While this UX element (from companies such as Crazy Egg and Rooster) has great potential, I’ve found it far too common that websites use this to overlay huge pop-ups across the entire screen as a last-ditch effort to convert users.</span>

</span>

</p>

what is this garbage, why does a paragraph need its text inside a span inside another span, what generated this trash?

<meta name="generator" content="Wix.com Website Builder"/>

ah, gotcha

1 comments

You'll see that type of output from most WYSYWIG editors. Some are better than others and they've improved over time, but a lot are still garbage. Both Redactor and TinyMCE would have produced something like this at points in the past (been a while since I used them, so that may not be the case now). Pasting from MS Word will also produce some gnarly HTML in most editors.