- a) when designing your own shrines,
b) when visiting other shrines?
And it seemed to me as though all the articles I had dug up were a much "clearer" case than things like "sans-serif versus serif content fonts" (which can go either way, so I don't care :|), which is why I switched to left-aligned content text at the beginning of the year; I figured since my sites tend to be very wordy, I should do my best to aid other people's reading process.
I love including floating images to the left and right of my content text though, so my biggest difficulty with switching to left-align is the awkwardness of the text around images that float to the right. I've mostly got used to it by now, even though it's still a struggle each time. (Not to mention how mobile devices may display text differently anyway, so the text would float differently around the images depending on the device... Then again, most of these sites aren't optimal for mobile reading anyway.) Truth to be told, I vastly prefer the looks of justified content text on my own sites because I like the uniform look - all the more so if a layout header is centered. When visiting other people's sites, I like both, and probably don't even take conscious note of it! I've also never had an issue reading justified text as far as the white space is concerned (letter-spacing in the content text is a different matter).
In a recent layout revamp of mine, I left in "text-align: justify" from the previous layout and didn't take note of it - now that I have, I realize why I like the looks of the layout so much, not having used justified text for quite some time. And this was a layout that could even stand not having justified text, as there are no content images.
Anyway, I didn't say all this to premeditate the outcome of the input in this topic, but so you know why I'm bringing this up in the first place. =x I'm really curious how everyone else thinks about this (it's okay to give your honest opinion!), and whether a) and b) differ from one another, and whether anyone has difficulties reading justified text.