Tried this on several articles, and it was displaying a lot of markup.
Ick. URLs?
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#182This is awesome and it works great on iOS's Safari!
Dope! Glad you figured that out. I axed the mobile install instructions because bookmarklet installation on mobile is such a mess. I designed it for mobile initially, so the layout should usable, at least.
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#183Aw, I made a chrome extension, but this is better :( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grokfaster/ncjhald...
Don't be sad! Be glad that you're not only seeing opportunity that others find valuable, but you're capable of executing on it :) I've installed your ext, going to give it a whirl and see what I can learn from it. Keep building!
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#184I like the idea however it could do with filtering out HTML and Javascript. Most pages I've tried it on so far without manually selecting text it goes through a bunch of javascript before getting to the content. That may be my bad the way I'm using it but as the site mentions readability I figured it'd chuck it through that first
It uses readability if you don't make a selection. The selection logic is pretty dumb, and could use some help. Thanks for pointing this out!
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#185Great stuff - thanks for sharing. One note: when I drag the bookmarklet from the Install page to my toolbar, then try to use it on a page on my http://localhost/ (a dev site, for ex.), it (a) does what I expected it to do, but then (b) forwards me to http://localhost/install.html when it is finished. When I browse an actual domain-based site, it gives me the nice "You just read..." message at the end. It would be nic…
Welcome to my smelly code! It's supposed to go to /install on squirt.io--and also localhost for my own dev purposes. It's a bit of a hack, but saves me from maintaining two bookmarklets. Are you a publisher? Trying to embed it on your blog/site?
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#186I don't think squirt is the best name, it brings bad thoughts to my mind.
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#187amazing. My feature request is PDF functionality. thanks for making this.
To read PDFs with this would be amazing
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slow down on long words would be very helpful, I just tried it with some german news text[1] at 600wpm: Worked great except for words that occured like Kinderbetreuungsmöglichkeiten US-Geheimdienstausschusses Bundestags-Innenausschuss Bundeswirtschaftsminister Bundesarbeitsministeriums [1] http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/nachrichten.353.de.html
Do you think german words like this would benefit from automatic syllable colorization -- slightly changing the shade of grey to make the syllable boundaries more obvious?
For German (and maybe English too?), I think splitting up compound words into their constituent noun stems could work.
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#189This is nice but reading speed really isn't my bottleneck when it comes to do things.
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#190I'm sorry but I just can't get past the name. Who names any product squirt?