Typesetting software does a lot of that magic automatically and further allows easy manual adjustments to make the copy look even and readable without awkward spacing, “corridors” etc. Browser handling and latest CSS capabilities don’t even come close.
Having studied typography and worked in typesetting, I can’t imagine using full justification of body copy on the web.
Firdt off, the maximum line length should be between 50 and 80 characters roughly, not as many words as your display fits.
Justification instead of hyphens is also abhorrent and I don't know any justification (hehhehh) for why one should use it at all even. I know it's traditional in legal copy and sometimes in news papers but with proper hyphenation (which is possible with CSS these days) I would strongly recommend never to justify anything on the web if one can avoid it.
The author should try adding language to the HTML tag (`<html lang=en-US>`) and setting `hyphens: auto` in CSS. Still hyphenation in browser is of a lower quality than you will find in a book with good typesetting.
I played around with the page and, to me, left-aligned text looks much better than justified text.