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Better Web Readability Project - CSS Library
- Jakob 17y agoUsing it for a while now. Essentially it’s this bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){readStyle='style-newspaper';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_script);_readability_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability.css';_readability_css.type='text/css';_readability_css.media='screen';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_css);_readability_print_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_print_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_print_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability-print.css';_readability_print_css.media='print';_readability_print_css.type='text/css';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_print_css);})();
- ashleyw 17y agoFor anyone interested, this is the code which "parses" the page: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js
- pchristensen 17y agoHow does it compare to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ?
- TweedHeads 17y agoDefinitely "Readability" should have more exposure. I've been using it lately and I love it. Simple is beauty.
- vladocar 17y agoThis project should not be confused with "readability.js", here the point is better CSS Typography, not java-script cleaning "noise" methods.
- lorax 17y agoI found the blog linked to this page (which looks like it uses the css) really hard to read on my monitor. They letters were too small and close together. There was even one word that I couldn't tell if it was worn or worm until I highlighted the last letter. ( I suspect the author had a similar problem, I have never heard of words giving a "worm book welcoming".
- vladocar 17y agoYou are absolutely right! I didn't have time to redesign my blog who is still using 12px default. But if we use 16px like standard I think we should wait for 80% or more users have monitors bigger then 1024px. If you have two column blog is not the problem to change to 16px, but for multi column site we need more space. But I was wondering something else there are there 10 and more texts from Kant, Bukowski, Elvis also some blogs, is it easy to read? Do you have some suggestion how can we improve it? Try to be creative, we all spend hours reading on the computer, you probably think of this problem before. Please, share your experience!
- tomh- 17y agoBeware that this is released GPL! Because it is client side code, you are automatically redistributing the source so this means your entire application must be released under GPL too..I'm not a legal expert but I don't advise anyone to take any risk with using GPL code for client side..