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Readability unclutters your online reading material
Readability offers modes for everyone who reads online, whether you prefer a terminal-style light-on-dark monospace style or a newspaper-style serif. Text size is customizable and can be made extra large, which actually strikes me as an accessibility feature, and not just a convenience. You can also adjust the column width to suit your personal preferences. Readability works better on some sites than others: it's perfect on NYTimes.com, and unfortunately doesn't work at all on Download Squad.
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Erik Sagen said 1:34PM on 3-04-2009
That's because Download Squad doesn't need it. :)
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Mike said 1:40PM on 3-04-2009
Did you test this? When I try it with Firefox 3.0.6 on the Download Squad front page all I get is a blank page.
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Jay Hathaway said 1:41PM on 3-04-2009
Yep, I tested it. See the last line of my review: "Readability works better on some sites than others: it's perfect on NYTimes.com, and unfortunately doesn't work at all on Download Squad."
Cindy said 2:25PM on 3-04-2009
Great concept -- especially for folks who have vision loss and need to have webpages reformatted without all the "junk.' However, it does not work consistently. Still needs some development!
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Rocketboy said 4:32PM on 3-04-2009
Or, you can just download Opera.
Just sayin.
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SilverWave said 4:54PM on 5-31-2009
Just what I was looking for.
Works on about 60% of sites.
Does not work with the bbc or www.linuxtoday.com
Does work on www.theregister.co.uk and the www.theinquirer.net
For the rest I use "Add/Remove web site defined styles"
From the "Toolbar Buttons" extension from Firefox (I think).
Cheers
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TidyRead said 2:15AM on 3-15-2009
you may want to try TidyRead. It has accuracy to extract articles and supports different languages.
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