it would be nice to have a light mode option since this is unusable for me otherwise
it follows your browser/device preference, but noted that a manual override would be a useful setting!
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#62The solution to sync this correctly (or at least, the best one I have found so far) is to watch to the theme state change of the app, then query for `meta[name='theme-color']`, and set manually its `content` attribute to your desirable colour.
The theme colour you declare in the manifest and `` of the html index is more of a fallback than anything.
I'm sure you'd figure it out, but let me know if you need something more detail; I would be happy to help.
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#63Another small PWA-specific thing is the theme colour. I think you are only listening to `prefers-color-scheme`, so when the user manually switches between dark/light mode, there's a mismatch between the OS' status bar and the app's UI. The solution to sync this correctly (or at least, the best one I have found so far) is to watch to the theme state change of the app, then query for `meta[name='theme-color']`, and set…
i love that you're using the PWA... i love PWAs, so i added fun stuff like offline support, but i wasn't sure if anyone would find it
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could the problem be Moby Dick ’s infamously large vocabulary, which contains words used essentially nowhere else?
i actually had an out-of-memory bug, which i've since fixed. chewing through it now to see if we can get it
it got confused by some of the more uhh complex passages ;-)
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#65Another small PWA-specific thing is the theme colour. I think you are only listening to `prefers-color-scheme`, so when the user manually switches between dark/light mode, there's a mismatch between the OS' status bar and the app's UI. The solution to sync this correctly (or at least, the best one I have found so far) is to watch to the theme state change of the app, then query for `meta[name='theme-color']`, and set…
i think i fixed it? let me know i love that you're using the PWA... i love PWAs, so i added fun stuff like offline support, but i wasn't sure if anyone would find it
I, too, love PWAs to death and has pretty much dedicated my entire programming life (outside of work) to them. I had a good chuckle when I even saw the screenshots you setup for the installation prompt. Thanks for being part of the crusade :D
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#66i've been building this over the last two weeks, it first started as a reader for standard ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org/ ), with clean typography, progress tracking, and nice deep linking (try clicking on a paragraph to create a mark and copy it to your clipboard) but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org , i've been spending the last few days fryi…
Apart from that, on mobile I'm having some troubles:
- scrolling at any time stops the audio and the audio will only start again at the paragraph start, not where it left off - the paragraph doesn't scroll automatically if it's longer than the screen height. I can't scroll down because of issue 1 (I like to read+listen) - I can't seem to click into a paragraph/sentence to continue reading from there.
Again, well done! I love these kinds of projects.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean I didn't want to link the pornfic site lol. I didn't link asstr either.
Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.
From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be described as 'vestigial', or maybe 'decorative', I thought "better not." :)
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.
Yeah from a perspective of grouping it definitely belongs in the SB/SV/QQ list. From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be described as 'vestigial', or maybe 'decorative', I thought "better not." :)
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#69This is great! I would love an explicit "set bookmark to here" button if I scroll up from the high watermark I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way I read being able to explicitly walk the high watermark back a bit would be nice (maybe that's doable if you select text? I didn't try!) The format is nice, I love standard ebooks I opened Moby Dick but didn't see how to listen to it on my…
check it out! let me know what you think
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#70i've been building this over the last two weeks, it first started as a reader for standard ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org/ ), with clean typography, progress tracking, and nice deep linking (try clicking on a paragraph to create a mark and copy it to your clipboard) but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org , i've been spending the last few days fryi…
Really nice, listened to a bit of Dracula and didn't expect to be so hooked :) Apart from that, on mobile I'm having some troubles: - scrolling at any time stops the audio and the audio will only start again at the paragraph start, not where it left off - the paragraph doesn't scroll automatically if it's longer than the screen height. I can't scroll down because of issue 1 (I like to read+listen) - I can't seem to c…