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The following is a brain dump of an idea I have: I've thought of writing a proxy server that parses pages before serving them to you. It's goal would be to mak
by tsomctl 11y ago
The following is a brain dump of an idea I have:
I've thought of writing a proxy server that parses pages before serving them to you. It's goal would be to make webpages more readable, with sane font sizes and colors. I'm tired of reading webpages on my iPhone that are "optimized" for mobile where each line is 5 words. I could fit more text on the screen of my first laptop, which had half the resolution. Also, blog posts from medium.com currently crash mobile Safari.
Every website would require custom code. It's default failure mode would be to just show the original web page. I don't want to have to fuck with it when some page gets mangled and is completely unreadable.
- coldtea 11y agoHow is that different from the already existing "Reader" mode in mobile Safari? Or Instapaper et al.
- prezjordan 11y agoNot a bad idea - but not there are services that do this by scraping the web page (Instapaper, Readability, etc), rather than requiring a proxy. I encourage you to check them out - maybe you can do even better.