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I did not realize that Safari 5's Reader feature was actually implemented using Readability. That's good to know.
by omaranto 16y ago
I did not realize that Safari 5's Reader feature was actually implemented using Readability. That's good to know.
- ugh 16y agoThey themselves didn’t know, actually. Until someone told them to look at the Acknowledgements. (If you have Safari 5 installed you can check it out yourself, the Acknowledgments can be found in the Help menu.)
- sliverstorm 16y agoSo can we assume this means Safari isn't actually calling arc90's servers when it uses Readability? I really hope it isn't. That'd be INCREDIBLY under-handed. I can't imagine a big company like Apple shipping software that relies on an unrelated company's service, without said other company even realizing.
- pavs 16y agoI don't know if they are, but I can tell you that the day Safari 5 came out, for few hours Readability was unresponsive. It wasn't working for me on any site.
- umbrae 16y agoThey aren't calling our servers. And that was a European backbone (Tiscali) having trouble - if you're in the EU or small fractions of the east coast you may have seen that hiccup. Unrelated to our servers.
- pavs 16y agoThanks for the response. By the way, I integrated readability in to my site as an alternative to "print page" option. I have to have ads, I hate the fact that I do, at least I give readers the option to read in a less cluttered way.
- masklinn 16y agoNo, they based their work on readability but it's not like they're just lifting it straight.
- jonah 16y agoI know there's no requirement to do so, but am somewhat surprised that they didn't get a heads up or thanks from Apple for such a visible implementation.
- miguelpais 16y agoNeither did I. So I find it strange that in news articles like this one: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/travel/13Harry.html?hp http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/travel/13Harry.html?hp Readability still does a better job then the Reader extension that is based on it. Readability is able to include the images and presents something that doesn't look like a poorly printed page like, sorry guys, the Reader thing does.
- andreyf 16y agoI imagine that "thank a developer for using a bookmarklet" is pretty low on the priority list of people trying to implement this feature. Wayyy below "guess where Steve's mood is going, so we can get him at a time he'll think this deserves the precious screen space".