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Shameless plug for color-loving people : Are all verbs blue ? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo
by GistNoesis 7y ago
Shameless plug for color-loving people :
Are all verbs blue ?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/
It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags.
The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension.
The question is how universal can we make this color-mapping ?
- err4nt 7y agoI have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil
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- tleb_ 7y ago> What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? So cute, so subjective.
- GistNoesis 7y ago>What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? It's waiting for review approval on the chrome webstore.
- nurettin 7y agoafter checking icon and layout, they just install the extension in a sandbox and if it runs without a javascript error it passes.
- GistNoesis 7y agoIt has just appeared now. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorify/pipnfjhpbdpejoemmkhoglekbjakmnkc https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorify/pipnfjhpb...
- smhmd 7y agoCould you make it activate on demand/icon click? Excited to see how this would affect skimming web pages for me.
- GistNoesis 7y agoFrom a security point of view it will probably require some additional permissions, that I'm not comfortable asking yet. It's also taking a few seconds to process big pages so for the time being I'll rather have the user click the button when he wants to. But I'll try to think of a solution for this use case.
- OkayPhysicist 7y agoWell the first step would be to write a better browser.
- franga2000 7y ago> What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? If I were the dev and heard that kind of attitude, I would intentionally not port it. What, exactly, was the point of being an ass there?
- air7 7y agoI like the idea but the demo page looks a boy clownish. As in, too many colors. Perhaps you should test which particular elements benefit most from this type of tagging