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by tastefulwords 15y ago
I'm not aware of the problem you're describing. And I can't seem to reproduce it. Could you provide more details, please? -- URL of an example article, more details on what exactly happens that shouldn't happen. If you'd like, you can get i
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Don't worry, I didn't take it in a bad way. And I do, actually, completely agree with you; I thought that my comment made that clear -- but I do appreciate you making sure I didn't take offense; that kind of courtesy is rare. Back to our is
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. If user defined style-sheets worked (and if content and presentation were truly separated) the web would be a much better place. When I was developing Readable, btw, I pretty much thought of it as a better implementatio
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
You're very welcome. No; Readable doesn't use anything like the Knuth and Plass algorithm. But I did thoroughly check out the JS implementation you mentioned; and Readable will probably use a part of the Knuth algorithm in the future -- as
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Thank you, too.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Would've been nice if you mentioned that your company has nothing to do with Readable, as there is a chance someone reading might get that impression -- especially for the short time that your reply is the first reply.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Well, just customize Readable ( http://readable.tastefulwords.com/?setup ) to your heart's content. Then, get in touch, and send me the custom options you used. If the theme is awesome, I'll add it to Readable's selection of themes ( http:/
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
As for the license the code is under, I say "Yes and no" and detail them both. The "no" part address the fact that Readable's code isn't (and probably won't be) in any public code repositories. If you're interested in the code, though, you
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
As soon as I get a few free minutes, I promise I'll look over licenses more carefully and re-release the code. In case anyone is interested in using the source code right this second, just come back to the site tomorrow and you'll find the
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by 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 b
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
"Readable text" does not mean the same thing for everyone. I look at it as the long tail of text formatting preferences; and I think it's everyone's right to have text look exactly the way they want -- no compromises. That's why Readable is
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Thank you.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Readable doesn't really want to be "better" than Readability. In all, they're actually very different beasts. And I honestly don't consider Readability to be my competition. Readable first started because of my own desire to have text forma
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
I will also be adding an option that will disable even this anonymous tracking, for those who really want/need it. However, you'll just have to take my word for it that I won't be reading the server logs -- which contain the same, if not mo
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
This is a planned feature for Readable, too. Count on seeing it in a future release.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
You are correct, sir. But I haven't really gotten in to the open-source game just yet -- maybe I should; I don't know. I am using version control; just not public version control. If you want to help, get in touch ( http://readable.tasteful
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by 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.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Hyphenation is a planned feature. As are hanging (typographic) quotation marks. So hang tight: more cool stuff is coming -- I just have to find more hours in the day.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
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
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Yup; all text processing is done in the browser. URLs are tracked, though -- they would be tracked in my server logs, even if I didn't do anything specific to track them. But they are intentionally tracked -- and a percentage of them are ru
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
If you have any suggestions, I'm very open to them. As a matter of fact, if you're up to it, you can design your very own theme -- I'll let you name it, and give you full credit. Or, if you just have a couple of quick suggestions, feel free
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Glad I made an impression; and thanks for the compliment. I'm actually about the same in real life, too. Don't worry: Readable won't ever have advertising -- the most I'm looking for is something like a very small "Sponsored By XXX" banner,
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Honestly, I browsed around for less then ten minutes, before deciding on Creative Commons for the code -- and I did so only because I previously saw source-code under various Creative Commons licenses. I did not know that it wasn't recommen
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
The source code isn't in any repository because I don't work with repositories. And, if I were to list a specific version of the code, it would become slightly obsolete in less than a week -- as I am continually tweaking Readable's text-par
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by tastefulwords 16y ago
What I would do -- what I actually do do, as a matter of fact -- is dive right in and learn on the go. Necessity is the mother of invention -- or, in our case, the mother of resourcefulness. I.e. nothing will make you learn something faster
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by tastefulwords 16y ago
I would advise you get started coding as soon as possible. And there's two reasons I'm giving you this advice: (1) no "learning experience" in the world compares to actually having to do something to your app's code -- I've been doing dev
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by tastefulwords 16y ago
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Gang Leader for a Day, by Sudhir Venkatesh The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
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by tastefulwords 16y ago
Start over. Passion is everything -- especially for a single founder.
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