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On Friday, June 5, 2015, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure! When I highlight the word "London", the Wikipedia preview contains
> an IPA block that has a link which, when pressed, causes the app to crash.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Want me to reach out to Amazon about that crash condition so they
>> can patch it?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, June 5, 2015, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>>
>>> +mobile-l
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay to move this to mobile-l?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, June 5, 2015, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> While they strip out links/citations, they do preserve text formatting
>>>>> (italics & bold).
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Bernd Sitzmann <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Nice find. I also like being able to swipe those cards left/right
>>>>>> between different information sources. Looks like depending on the 
>>>>>> selected
>>>>>> words it's: Dictionary, Wikipedia, Translation
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was using the Kindle app on the plane today, and I noticed a few
>>>>>>> interesting things, including this:
>>>>>>> ​
>>>>>>>  device-2015-06-04-225651.png
>>>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0BzcksMsMNpY1SzA3bHY4WF9hM1U/edit?usp=drive_web>
>>>>>>> ​
>>>>>>> When highlighting a word or phrase, the user is presented with a
>>>>>>> definition of the word from Wikipedia. The content is presented in a 
>>>>>>> native
>>>>>>> component, with only the first section of text shown (all links,
>>>>>>> references, infoboxes, etc. are stripped out). (I wonder what API 
>>>>>>> they're
>>>>>>> using?)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks very similar to the link preview prototypes we've been
>>>>>>> developing in our apps, and it's very telling that the Kindle app has 
>>>>>>> such
>>>>>>> a feature, since it helps emphasize the usefulness of this feature in 
>>>>>>> any
>>>>>>> kind of "reader" app.  Perhaps, in addition to link previews, we may 
>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>> want to think about allowing users to highlight words and show 
>>>>>>> definitions
>>>>>>> (from Wiktionary?), pronunciations, translations, etc...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> p.s. I was able to get the Kindle app to crash by clicking a link
>>>>>>> inside one of the Wikipedia "previews" that wasn't stripped out 
>>>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>>> In other words, no app is safe from the edge cases of wikitext!
>>>>>>>
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