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You're very welcome. No; Readable doesn't use anything like the Knuth and Plass algorithm. But I did thoroughly check out the JS implementation you mentioned; and Readable will probably use a part of the Knuth algorithm in the future -- as I am planning to support hanging quotation marks, hyphenation, as well as better (typographic) justification.
Author of the JS implementation here. Let me know if you have any questions about the implementation or problems integrating it. I was hoping someone would pick it up and integrate it with Readability-like service. (I've slowly been working to add support for it to Treesaver http://www.treesaverjs.com/. ) For hyphenation you might also want to check out my Hypher project ( https://github.com/bramstein/Hypher ) which…
I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll definitely listen and consider them carefully. P.S. jbm, thanks a lot for posting this -- I've tried posting Readable to HC myself (twice), but it didn't stick.
I'm another one who uses such services for PRINTability. And one of my big sadness is that the author _line / date_line url_lines are often missing: a real nuisance on a piece of paper that gets discovered months (years?) later. Note: readability only of late thought to start displaying URL at end of articles. EDITs: 1) Meant to say I'm pleased to see you working on more flexible/powerful version than Readability (do…
As for your issues on printing: thank you.
I had honestly not given printing very much thought -- as I don't really use it myself.
Your ideas make a lot of sense, though; so count on seeing them implemented.
Doesn't work on this page: http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seni... I like it though, keep it up. :-)
This one is better than Readability, seems faster. It's more instant like the old readability. I am complaining the new direction that Readability take since day 1 when they decided to first abandon old readability, than force a meaningless frame around content with a very slow implementation. My only critique for all: please have a name something other than contains "read".
One thing that makes me prefer Readability (or in my case the Readability Redux Chrome extension[1]) is that it's able to stitch together multiple-page articles into one page. It makes reading articles on sites like The Register and Ars Technica much more bearable. I'd love it if Readable gained this feature. (Safari Reader mode also does this, using code from the old Readability.) [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webs…
Quoted from an email, where I answered the same exact question: Most likely, Readable will never have multi-page support. The reason for this is Readable's philosophy, and not any technical difficulties that feature may imply. It is Readable's intention to take whatever is in your browser window right now, and make it better. But it is not Readable's purview to go beyond that. Readable tries to act like a browser, in…
I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll definitely listen and consider them carefully. P.S. jbm, thanks a lot for posting this -- I've tried posting Readable to HC myself (twice), but it didn't stick.
I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll definitely listen and consider them carefully. P.S. jbm, thanks a lot for posting this -- I've tried posting Readable to HC myself (twice), but it didn't stick.
[1] Screen shot of scroll marker in action: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985...
I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll definitely listen and consider them carefully. P.S. jbm, thanks a lot for posting this -- I've tried posting Readable to HC myself (twice), but it didn't stick.
Scroll marker support (a la Opera[1], although Opera seems to have dropped support for it) would be excellent! This would be a visual indicator on the screen marking the previous bottom of the screen when the user hits space or page down. [1] Screen shot of scroll marker in action: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985...
I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll definitely listen and consider them carefully. P.S. jbm, thanks a lot for posting this -- I've tried posting Readable to HC myself (twice), but it didn't stick.
loving the script, it is breaking the right+click 'smooth gestures' extension in Chrome though. Which is how I normally close a tab.