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amazing. My feature request is PDF functionality. thanks for making this.
Upvote. Please give me a way to use this to read academic papers!
But I won't really be able to dig in until after this weekend. Feel free to contribute, PR, list requests, etc.
I installed this on my browser bar and hasn't worked for cnn.com, highlighting specific text on cnn.com, medium.com. It worked on techcrunch...what about the HTML of the previous sites renders Squirt unusable?
Good question! I'll be investigating that shortly...
Great 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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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
LOL. This is on the todo list :) Thanks for the feedback!
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That may be true for familiar words, but a long, uncommon word is unavoidably going to take more processing. Flashing "unforgettable" is probably fine, but I'd want a split second pause on "periodontia" or "imbroglie".
This is a great observation. After reading Spritz' blog post, I've been thinking about using word shape uniqueness as the main signal for how long to pause--i.e., "soliloquy" would be quite unique thanks to its ascenders and descenders, whereas "excessive" is less unique, owing to its relatively featureless outline. Combining shape with word frequency (across language) seems even more promising.
At a guess words with unique clusters of vowels would also stand out say 'Hawaiian'. Or other words like 'cameraman', 'minimum', 'consciousness', 'neuroscience', that all probably have a certain shape or density, even if they are flat.
This regex dictionary may be useful: http://www.visca.com/regexdict/ /^[aeiuocmnrsvwxz]*$/
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Good question! I'll be investigating that shortly...
I checked the console and it has to do with HTTPS. When I try to use Squirt on a HTTPS site I get this error in the console: "[blocked] The page at ' https://medium.com/p/cad4a8df73cf' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from ' http://www.squirt.io/bm/squirt.js' : this content should also be loaded over HTTPS."
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OP here. I'm using readability's old code (arc90) to extract text, and you can use squirt on any page you like--just embed a link with the same JS as the bookmarklet. If you want a real API, add a github issue ( http://www.github.com/cameron/squirt ) to remind me--it's on my project bucket list :)
Thanks for the reply! I thought Squirt used Spritz technology?