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OP, thanks for making this, I bet it was fun to build. That being said, I want someone to do the opposite of what this does. Less chrome, less bytes over the wire, less predictive search, less "flatness?", less timely, more timeless .
https://wikiless.org/ is probably what you are looking for. There are also extensions that automatically redirect Wikipedia links
Why you need this permission "Read your browsing history"? I think you only need access to: "*://*.wikipedia.org/*"
> "Technically this permission allows observing the history via chrome.tabs.onUpdated, but not read the previously existing history, so the phrasing is not entirely correct, strictly speaking."
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64063754/chrome-extensio...
To be clear, the extension doesn't access your browsing history at all. The "tabs" permission is just used to find Wikipedia tabs and enable/disable the new design when using the toggle from the browser popup.
The permissions requested (in the manifest.json file) are:
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"storage",
"*://*.wikipedia.org/*"
]
The design is interesting, but I can't help wonder why the design insists on keeping a specific page width instead of using the whole browser window. Even worse, for really wide pages, it just shows a column in the middle.
OP, thanks for making this, I bet it was fun to build. That being said, I want someone to do the opposite of what this does. Less chrome, less bytes over the wire, less predictive search, less "flatness?", less timely, more timeless .
https://wikiless.org/ is probably what you are looking for. There are also extensions that automatically redirect Wikipedia links
The design is interesting, but I can't help wonder why the design insists on keeping a specific page width instead of using the whole browser window. Even worse, for really wide pages, it just shows a column in the middle.
I absolutely adore the positioning of the table of contents. The design looks clean, utilitarian, and overall well executed.
That being said - and this is more a critique of modern design - I absolutely hate the suffocating roundness of the element corners. It's an aesthetic that drips with overfamiliarity and a patronizing attitude. It's the visual equivalent of being put in a padded room, or having a distant relative who you have nothing in common with and have not seen in years trying to relate to you with anecdotes about your childhood that you can scarcely remember.
I don't know why but since at least a year we have a new design on the french version of wikipedia (you can check by yourself on any wikipedia page in french).
But the english UI is bad it's hard to read on large screen. With your extension is really nice.
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https://wikiless.org/ is probably what you are looking for. There are also extensions that automatically redirect Wikipedia links
The only difference I notice between this and Wikipedia is that I can't hover over a link and get a pop-up description of the page. Is that all or is there more to it?