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One early criticism (aside from the sharing bugaboo) is the header is larger making the allowable reading area much smaller. the topmost the feed content can b
by ambirex 15y ago
One early criticism (aside from the sharing bugaboo) is the header is larger making the allowable reading area much smaller.
the topmost the feed content can be read is ~193px from the top of the browser. And you can't scroll down because of the way the page it built.
Here is what firebug told me:
29px - account bar
59px - search bar
73px - feed toolbar
32px - feed title bar (in the reading pane)
- oldstrangers 15y agoMy biggest complaint is they tampered with the scroll bar. It's way too small now and only functions as an aesthetic touch... The regular scroll bar works perfectly fine.
- rryan 15y agoOne of the greatest parts about Reader is that you don't need a mouse at all. Try using the keyboard shortcuts. (Hit Shift-? for a helpful overview)
- oldstrangers 15y agoI'm strangely addicted to my mouse. Must be all the years of gaming. The range of movement is minuscule compared to using the keyboard.
- notatoad 15y agopress the f key.
- levesque 15y agoI'm impressed by how clean this functionality is. Definitely less annoyed by the waste of space now!
- wvl 15y agoThe problem with that mode is that the content area becomes way too wide. With a 1024-1280 px wide browser window, the sidebar makes the content area an acceptable width for comfortable reading.
- edderly 15y agoMore bars than Dublin...I agree, the waste of space is annoying. I can't even think of the last time I wanted to search my RSS feeds and it's taking up a chunk of space. On a 13inch Macbook add the Mac App bar, Chrome (tabs + search-url + bookmarks toolbar) a third of the readable area is covered with "bars".
- bergie 15y agoYep, with GNOME3 and Firefox, the new Google Reader takes some 326 of my 768 vertical pixels before we get to the actual article I'm reading
- seltzered_ 15y agosame setup, i used the minimalist reader plugin to make life easier: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgpppbiipcfcldpgcjlhoehdffdjjall https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgpppbiipcfcldpgcj... NOTE: I haven't checked to see if this plugin still works on the new google reader design.
- edderly 15y agoThankyou! It does appear to work.
- glenstein 15y agoI am very annoyed at the waste of space, waiting for a new Google Reader Absolutely Compact extension for Opera. That said, I frequently search my RSS feeds. To my surprise, there's often lots of very informing stuff on economic/political questions I might search about; it's like consulting my own private network of expert commentary, and is often more useful to me than google search.
- anigbrowl 15y agoFor real. It's even worse in Google groups. I realized this a few months ago during the Chromebook beta test; Everything is a toolbar, and Chrome is giving me UI fatigue.
- wvl 15y agoThat was my exact reaction -- barely usable on my 1280x800 screen. Until there's a better user style out there, this css makes the theme much better for me, by hiding the search bar and the feed toolbar: #top-bar { display: none; } #viewer-header { display: none; }
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- vladimirm 15y agoI was going to say the same thing. I took a screenshot and looked at the space. The actual content uses about 80% of the width and 70% of the height of my screen. Ideally, they could've moved a lot of stuff to the sidebar to avoid the four bars you also mention.