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Unfortunately, I have recently started encountering more sites where Safari just doesn't offer the Reader Mode option.
The arms race continues
I'm a huge fan of Readability Mode and use it often. It's proof that Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem. For those who are using e-ink devices, or even just standard tablets, EInkBro is another immensely useful tool. Yes, it's a standalone browser, not a mode on Firefox, Safari, Vivalti, etc. https://github.com/plateaukao/browser (Available through Google Play, F-Droid and other sources. Android…
I wish somebody would create a DL/GAN/style-transfer tool to automatically change the style of any website into https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ (regardless of how the website is structured, so deleting the CSS doesn't count)
https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB
On e-ink, the off-white / off-black colour palette is actually something of a probem, though the page otherwise remains highly readable.
From the original page, the lack of margins is a problem. Text running straight into the gutter is a readability problem.
I'm a huge fan of Readability Mode and use it often. It's proof that Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem. For those who are using e-ink devices, or even just standard tablets, EInkBro is another immensely useful tool. Yes, it's a standalone browser, not a mode on Firefox, Safari, Vivalti, etc. https://github.com/plateaukao/browser (Available through Google Play, F-Droid and other sources. Android…
I'm guessing this won't work with Remarkable. Or what are some good e-ink devices for this I wonder?
So while this one won't work, there are options.
[1] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable [2] https://toltec-dev.org/ [3] http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/
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I implemented this for TenFourFox and it's a real godsend for certain sites. Meanwhile, there's this, but not Android-compatible: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reader-view/
Thanks for the addon! Just for the sake of curiosity, what do you think it would take for your addon to be ported to work also on Android?
The main reason reader mode is "underused" is that for a substantial fraction of pages, it does not work. Because of the way the human motivational architecture works, if there were a reader mode that always worked, its rate of usage would be many times higher than the usage rates of the current crop of reader modes. But of course, there is no way to create a reader mode that works for all web pages -- and that fact…
Web developers go out of their way to break Reader Mode. What incentive would they have to create content for a platform that competes with the web, which actively limits their ability to deliver ads and degrade the reading experience?
In any case, I imagine that a ML powered Reader Mode engine would perform significantly better than a semantically powered engine. It should be fairly straightforward to train a ML model to make a visual distinction between the actual content, and the ads and other garbage that pollutes webpages. Crowdsourced training data would increase the accuracy even further, while limiting the ability of developers to defeat the reader mode.
I'm a huge fan of Readability Mode and use it often. It's proof that Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem. For those who are using e-ink devices, or even just standard tablets, EInkBro is another immensely useful tool. Yes, it's a standalone browser, not a mode on Firefox, Safari, Vivalti, etc. https://github.com/plateaukao/browser (Available through Google Play, F-Droid and other sources. Android…
But if you want to get a sense of the app, it's possible to do so.
Reader View is excellent on low-spec systems. On TenFourFox you can try any page in Reader View, not just what the browser thinks will work. I also implemented sticky reader view, where going to links stays in reader mode even on different sites until you explicitly leave reader view (see https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/09/tenfourfox-fpr27b1-a... ) and auto reader view by domain or by domain subpages ( https://t…
"Sticky Reader View" is an excellent idea! Perhaps there is no need for both sticky and auto reader view settings. As soon as the user enabled auto reader view, you assume Sticky mode and enable auto reader view on any domains they subsequently visit (and render in reader mode successfully at least once?)
Any developers who'd like to contribute to improving how article content is extracted from web pages should check out Mozilla's Readability repository: https://github.com/mozilla/readability I'm currently trying to bring the PHP port up to speed here: https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php We use an older version as part of our article extraction for Push to Kindle: https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
I believe the Instant View[1] crowdsourcing model where people write templates for each website could boost a lot these parsers (hope they open source it soon). Its just impossible to make these extensions work for every single website with some simple heuristics. Check the codebase of some popular parsers: Firefox (already mentioned): https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/master/Readabili... Google Chrome: htt…
Any developers who'd like to contribute to improving how article content is extracted from web pages should check out Mozilla's Readability repository: https://github.com/mozilla/readability I'm currently trying to bring the PHP port up to speed here: https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php We use an older version as part of our article extraction for Push to Kindle: https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
I believe the Instant View[1] crowdsourcing model where people write templates for each website could boost a lot these parsers (hope they open source it soon). Its just impossible to make these extensions work for every single website with some simple heuristics. Check the codebase of some popular parsers: Firefox (already mentioned): https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/master/Readabili... Google Chrome: htt…
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3. Remove all the crap that isn't the article the user came for I don't use Reader mode for readability, but to remove all the clutter on the page.
It's not absolutely necessary to remove it, but when reading the article it should not be front-and-centre on the page. That means: - Single-column layouts. Sidebars suck. - No fixed-position elements. Especially not headers or footers, though fixed sidebars are also almost always a mistake. (There can be some benefit for reference / tools, but only about one time in a thousand that they're actually used.) On desktop…
What drives me insane: website with floating header and footer, and I read, then hit space to scroll down to the next "page", but it doesn't take into account what's hidden behind header and/or footer, so now I'm missing two lines, and have to grab mouse/arrow keys to scroll back up two lines. It just works and then you put in extra work to make it not work thank you very much arghhhhhh