Readable: A more readable version of "readability"

Post by MediaBehavior » Tue, May 10, 2011, 9:25 AM UTC

tastefulwords wrote: post #83

MediaBehavior wrote: post #80

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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…

Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report. 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.

Post by Sephr » Sat, May 14, 2011, 5:44 PM UTC

beaumartinez wrote: post #49

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Why would you want justification in something that's supposed to make something more readable ? Justification might make text look nice, but it's terrible for readability, and people with dyslexia often struggle at reading it, and the same usually goes for hyphenation.

Why, then, are books typeset justified and hyphenated? > Justification might make text look nice. And that's bad? You have to look at text to read it; I'd rather it look "nice" and as non-distracting as possible. Perhaps "readability" is subjective, but I think text that flows evenly is easy on the eyes.