If a heuristic can judge the accuracy, then this readbility mode could be offered as a hint in some part of the screen (top or bottom right, similar to popup blocker does/used to do?).
Otherwise there is an option for a fallback solution. Look at Aardvark (firefox plugin, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4111). Basically it shows a frame around different HTML block elements, and allows you to Isolate or Remove etc until you have the main article left in there. But maybe all of this still should go as an extension, rather than be built into Chrome? Basically the readability mode would weed out third party content, and some local stuff as well, leading to less ad exposure. The latter might not be enough politically correct to have as a default browser feature? On Mar 4, 11:08 pm, Mike Beltzner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4-Mar-09, at 4:38 PM, Evan Martin wrote: > > > > > Here's the core of that implementation: > >http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability-0.1.js > > > It's heuristic-based, e.g.: > > // Study all the paragraphs and find the chunk that has the most > > <p>'s and keep it: > > For what it's worth, there are several reports on LifeHacker that the > selected heuristic doesn't end up working for a lot of pages, but it's > a clever start, to be sure. > > >> I continue to feel that this is a huge use case for browsers and > >> something > >> like this could be a major boon if the UI was right. > > Agreed. I think you'd need clearer controls about how to get back to > the full page, and probably a smooth transition from "full page" to > "selected bit" that uses visual momentum to keep the user's context. > Something similar to how the lightboxes on many websites use now, but > perhaps without the 3-d effect. > > Also, it might be powerful to let the user indicate the aspect of the > page they want to focus on. > > cheers, > mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
