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I understand what you are getting at, but it's really a problem with Instapaper. We shouldn't really expect NYTimes to not exploit the full power of web technol
by alphakappa 9y ago
I understand what you are getting at, but it's really a problem with Instapaper. We shouldn't really expect NYTimes to not exploit the full power of web technologies simply because read-it-later services may not present them in the same way. The readers have to adapt to the content, and not the other way around.
- tedmiston 9y agoTo some degree, yes, but then it's also a problem at Pocket, Evernote, Readability, ReadKit, Safari Reading List, ... If the content breaks all of their parsers and scrapers because it's tied up in these custom dynamic components, then I wouldn't really expect all of the parsers to handle that themselves. (Of course one pure text standard would be nice.) The bigger issue to me is that the omissions are silent.
- untog 9y agoI think what we need is a standard packaging format that will allow services to download interactive articles and all their dependencies easily. Then they can just render it in a web view.