Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

Post by rsanek » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

red0point wrote: post #39

The rules implemented are very simple (taken from the patent application [1], the exact numbers are configurable). If there are 4 letters, 40% of all letters are bold. There is this claim as the first text on the website: We are happy if as many people as possible can use the advantage of Bionic Reading. For this reason, Bionic Reading should be able to be integrated into existing apps and services. The benefit for t…

Post by liminvorous » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 12:18 PM UTC

xvector wrote: post #92

renato_casutt wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ich danke Dir vielmals noeltock. Ja ich hatte bereits zwei Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox) als Beta-Versionen. Aber die Erkenntnis war, dass sehr viele Websites — da diese ja individuell erstellt werden — keine gute Experience ergab. Deswegen habe ich mit Silvio Rizzi (Reeder5) getestet, wie es am besten nutzbar gemacht werden kann. Hab aus Fehlern gelernt, aber wir denken dass es viele Entwickler gibt, die BR i…

The problem is that since you've patented these 3 lines of code, I'm not sure many other can legally write a browser extension for this functionality. I'd like to use this in Safari on iOS, for example, but... I can't.

Post by taubek » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 12:23 PM UTC

Post by phpnode » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 12:28 PM UTC

    $$('span.commtext').forEach(span => {
        const frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
        span.textContent.split(/\s+/).forEach(word => {
          const len = Math.ceil(word.length * 0.3);
          const leading = document.createElement('strong');
          leading.textContent = word.slice(0, len);
          const trailing = document.createTextNode(word.slice(len) + ' ');
          frag.appendChild(leading);
          frag.appendChild(trailing);
        });
        span.parentNode.replaceChild(frag, span);
    })

Post by Terretta » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 12:31 PM UTC