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I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll

I'm Readable's author. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, or even feature requests, I'm all ears. I'm not promising I'll implement them; but I'll definitely listen and consider them carefully. P.S. jbm, thanks a lot for posting this -- I've tried posting Readable to HC myself (twice), but it didn't stick.

yourcelf 15y ago
One thing the new readability does that I love: when paging down with the space bar, it puts a spot (•) in the margin where the previous bottom of the page was, and then smooth scrolls. Together, these make it much easier to keep your place on the page when scrolling; a bit enhancement to easy readability. It would be even better if you could bookmark your place in a long document and return to it later...
- tastefulwords 15y ago
  Noted. Count on finding both of those in a future release. The first one I was actually doing before Readability -- the old version of Readable did it (and Readability wasn't), but I haven't yet reimplemented the feature in the new version.
Sephr 15y ago
Why do you strip quotes? Specifically, you're doing: blockquote, q { quotes: "" ""; } and blockquote::before, blockquote::after, q::before, q::after { content: ""; } You'd be better off completely removing this to begin with, as even if you did specify the quotes (which should only be on <q>, not <blockquote>, and it makes no sense to include <blockquote> in that rule anyways), you would have to re-define the quotes for every single language (q:lang(...)). If this wasn't intentional, you should really pay attention to what your CSS reset does and make sure to explicitly define everything it resets.
- tastefulwords 15y ago
  This is a bug; thanks for catching it. It will be corrected. As for the intentionality of that CSS rule: it was intentional -- but some time ago; when quotes were redefined in another part of the CSS. Blockquotes are included because some browsers quote the content of that element too; don't ask which browsers though, as I honestly don't remember -- but older versions of one browser or another definitely did this.
xijhing 15y ago
I put this above, but I'd like to have access to my Apture extension. For some reason it gets disabled.
- tastefulwords 15y ago
  I'll be sure to look into exactly how Apture works -- and, if possible, I'll make it work inside of Readable's overlay too.
MediaBehavior 15y ago
I'm another one who uses such services for PRINTability. And one of my big sadness is that the author_line / date_line url_lines are often missing: a real nuisance on a piece of paper that gets discovered months (years?) later. Note: readability only of late thought to start displaying URL at end of articles. EDITs: 1) Meant to say I'm pleased to see you working on more flexible/powerful version than Readability (don't much like their latest approach of redirecting during reformatting). 2) You might want to try this sort of test-case - for which Readable only presents the first paragraph: http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seniorland_circa_2050/?page=full http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seni...
- tastefulwords 15y ago
  Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report. As for your issues on printing: thank you. I had honestly not given printing very much thought -- as I don't really use it myself. Your ideas make a lot of sense, though; so count on seeing them implemented.
  - MediaBehavior 15y ago
    Great, Gabriel... I like the way your mind works - and so look forward to following your work.
nickythegreek 15y ago
loving the script, it is breaking the right+click 'smooth gestures' extension in Chrome though. Which is how I normally close a tab.
- tastefulwords 15y ago
  I'll look into it, and see if i can fix that.
presto8 15y ago
Scroll marker support (a la Opera[1], although Opera seems to have dropped support for it) would be excellent! This would be a visual indicator on the screen marking the previous bottom of the screen when the user hits space or page down. [1] Screen shot of scroll marker in action: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985&picture=8236797 http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985&#3...
- tastefulwords 15y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. This is already a planned feature; so look forward to seeing it sometime soon.
  - presto8 15y ago
    Awesome, thanks!

yourcelf 15y ago

One thing the new readability does that I love: when paging down with the space bar, it puts a spot (•) in the margin where the previous bottom of the page was, and then smooth scrolls. Together, these make it much easier to keep your place on the page when scrolling; a bit enhancement to easy readability. It would be even better if you could bookmark your place in a long document and return to it later...

tastefulwords 15y ago
Noted. Count on finding both of those in a future release. The first one I was actually doing before Readability -- the old version of Readable did it (and Readability wasn't), but I haven't yet reimplemented the feature in the new version.

Sephr 15y ago

Why do you strip quotes? Specifically, you're doing: blockquote, q { quotes: "" ""; } and blockquote::before, blockquote::after, q::before, q::after { content: ""; } You'd be better off completely removing this to begin with, as even if you did specify the quotes (which should only be on <q>, not <blockquote>, and it makes no sense to include <blockquote> in that rule anyways), you would have to re-define the quotes for every single language (q:lang(...)). If this wasn't intentional, you should really pay attention to what your CSS reset does and make sure to explicitly define everything it resets.

tastefulwords 15y ago
This is a bug; thanks for catching it. It will be corrected. As for the intentionality of that CSS rule: it was intentional -- but some time ago; when quotes were redefined in another part of the CSS. Blockquotes are included because some browsers quote the content of that element too; don't ask which browsers though, as I honestly don't remember -- but older versions of one browser or another definitely did this.

xijhing 15y ago

I put this above, but I'd like to have access to my Apture extension. For some reason it gets disabled.

tastefulwords 15y ago
I'll be sure to look into exactly how Apture works -- and, if possible, I'll make it work inside of Readable's overlay too.

MediaBehavior 15y ago

I'm another one who uses such services for PRINTability. And one of my big sadness is that the author_line / date_line url_lines are often missing: a real nuisance on a piece of paper that gets discovered months (years?) later. Note: readability only of late thought to start displaying URL at end of articles. EDITs: 1) Meant to say I'm pleased to see you working on more flexible/powerful version than Readability (don't much like their latest approach of redirecting during reformatting). 2) You might want to try this sort of test-case - for which Readable only presents the first paragraph: http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seniorland_circa_2050/?page=full http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seni...

tastefulwords 15y ago
Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report. As for your issues on printing: thank you. I had honestly not given printing very much thought -- as I don't really use it myself. Your ideas make a lot of sense, though; so count on seeing them implemented.
- MediaBehavior 15y ago
  Great, Gabriel... I like the way your mind works - and so look forward to following your work.

nickythegreek 15y ago

loving the script, it is breaking the right+click 'smooth gestures' extension in Chrome though. Which is how I normally close a tab.

tastefulwords 15y ago
I'll look into it, and see if i can fix that.

presto8 15y ago

Scroll marker support (a la Opera[1], although Opera seems to have dropped support for it) would be excellent! This would be a visual indicator on the screen marking the previous bottom of the screen when the user hits space or page down. [1] Screen shot of scroll marker in action: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985&picture=8236797 http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985&#3...

tastefulwords 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. This is already a planned feature; so look forward to seeing it sometime soon.
- presto8 15y ago
  Awesome, thanks!