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It also automagically displays the text of the article in one page, despite the obnoxious effort of a site to require you to click through to multiple pages to
by mbateman 16y ago
It also automagically displays the text of the article in one page, despite the obnoxious effort of a site to require you to click through to multiple pages to read a single article.
As far as I can tell, the point of splitting an article into more than one page was just more ad exposure. So it's a double whammy: graying out and background the ads, and decreasing the number of ad-ridden pages one needs to read the article. Awesome in my book.
- JeffJenkins 16y agoI actually like multiple pages. I find reading some of the longer (8ish page) NY Times or The Atlantic articles difficult when it's just one enormous piece of text. I like that it's broken down into small chunks, and it offers a convenient place to stop if I don't have time for the full article. I also don't like it when people here link to Print View instead of the main article page. Partly for that reason, and partly because the text columns tend to be way too wide on print view pages. There's also frequently no way to get back to the non-print-view page.
- Terretta 16y agoSet your margins the way you like them: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Design the page for you, not for the ads.
- al_james 16y agoWow... I wonder how that works. 'next' and 'previous' links?
- jokermatt999 16y agoYeah, this technology has been around for a while. Take a look at AutoPager for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925/