I want the world to scroll this way
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I want the world to scroll this way
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Re: I want the world to scroll this way
#2The bookmarklet & chrome extension are partly based on readability.js.
The code is open source and available at https://github.com/rdwallis/MagicScrollWebReader if you want to have a poke at it.
Re: I want the world to scroll this way
#3Works perfectly on Chrome (24.0) but nothing happens on Firefox (18.0).
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#4Works perfectly on Chrome (24.0) but nothing happens on Firefox (18.0).
Thanks. Can I ask what OS are you using and what mouse?
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#5Works perfectly on Chrome (24.0) but nothing happens on Firefox (18.0).
Thanks. Can I ask what OS are you using and what mouse?
Windows 7 64bits and a standard usb mouse. I haven't tested the bookmarklet though, I was talking about the website itself: scrolling doesn't do anything and pressing H doesn't display anything either. I went to check the "Alice in Wonderland" ebook on your main website and everything seems to work perfectly there.
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#6Going back and forth between your page and HN by using the browser button doesn't return me to the exact same place I left on your page. Traditional scrolling does that, though. I wonder if that would be easy to implement without a browser extension.
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#7Works perfectly on Chrome (24.0) but nothing happens on Firefox (18.0).
I found some stickyness on Firefox 18. I've deployed a fix but I put a 24 hour cache in front of the page before posting it to hn so it'll probably only update for you this time tomorrow.
Re: I want the world to scroll this way
#8What benefit does this have over scrolling = next page? Your eyes have to refocus on the top of the page anyway, you might as well have refreshed the whole text, not just the top line of the second line.
Interesting idea though - what does this do on a touch device?
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#9This is a fundamentally wrong understanding of how reading works. This way may be ideal for close reading but full speed reading needs the whole page and the ability to bounce around visually.
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#10This isn't a particularly good idea for competent readers who typically scan entire blocks of sentences at a time. The scrolling effect just slows them down.