Comments on: Readability Updated: An End To The Yank Of The Hyperlink http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/ Web Application Design & Development Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-10022 Peter Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:46:32 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-10022 I support the suggestion of Bennet. Complete URLs in the footnotes would be great for printing. Great tool anyway. I support the suggestion of Bennet. Complete URLs in the footnotes would be great for printing. Great tool anyway.

]]> By: VANJ http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9794 VANJ Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:27:37 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9794 I love Readability, keep up the great work. One thing that can be improved..articles on the Economist (http:///www.economist.com) usually contain a couple of pictures, it would be great if Readability preserved these. Thanks. I love Readability, keep up the great work. One thing that can be improved..articles on the Economist (http:///www.economist.com) usually contain a couple of pictures, it would be great if Readability preserved these. Thanks.

]]> By: Mark A Johnson http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9746 Mark A Johnson Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:40:06 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9746 I just modified the script on my machine to work with Wikipedia, and took out the footnotes. The links are still identifiable when I pass the mouse over them and that's sufficient for me. It's entirely too distracting to try to make it through an entire Wikipedia article with all the links and things leading me elsewhere. I would love to see more work on Wikipedia to remove all the "Edit" items and "See Also", etc. Wikipedia is not crazy-ridden with advertisements, like Yahoo News or other sites. However, it's got its own well meaning, but still distracting, links and references and footnotes and etc, etc. It's very useful just to have a simple article to read, rather than a crazy crossroads of infinite links. Thanks, again, for all your work. Readability is definitely a top tool for me. I just modified the script on my machine to work with Wikipedia, and took out the footnotes. The links are still identifiable when I pass the mouse over them and that’s sufficient for me. It’s entirely too distracting to try to make it through an entire Wikipedia article with all the links and things leading me elsewhere.

I would love to see more work on Wikipedia to remove all the “Edit” items and “See Also”, etc. Wikipedia is not crazy-ridden with advertisements, like Yahoo News or other sites. However, it’s got its own well meaning, but still distracting, links and references and footnotes and etc, etc. It’s very useful just to have a simple article to read, rather than a crazy crossroads of infinite links.

Thanks, again, for all your work. Readability is definitely a top tool for me.

]]> By: Chris Dary http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9730 Chris Dary Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:15:16 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9730 Hey Mark, It was probably a bit of a copout on our end, but the reason we decided to skip wikipedia is because it already has a large number of footnotes within it (which are citations in wikipedia's case), and it ended up rendering really poorly as a result. We just weren't sure how to fix that particular issue, so we decided to forgo the footnoting for it. Hope this helps - any thoughts on how to better solve it would also be appreciated. -Chris Hey Mark,

It was probably a bit of a copout on our end, but the reason we decided to skip wikipedia is because it already has a large number of footnotes within it (which are citations in wikipedia’s case), and it ended up rendering really poorly as a result. We just weren’t sure how to fix that particular issue, so we decided to forgo the footnoting for it.

Hope this helps – any thoughts on how to better solve it would also be appreciated.

-Chris

]]> By: Mark A Johnson http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9726 Mark A Johnson Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:44:33 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9726 I noticed that the "Convert links to footnotes" script has an exclusion for Wikipedia (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js). I love Wikipedia, but boy, if I had to identify a single site that shatters my focus, it's Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia has to be the perfect example of the tension between more information and information overload. Can you provide any hints why this exclusion is there? Is there any way around this? Are there any plans to remove this exclusion? I noticed that the “Convert links to footnotes” script has an exclusion for Wikipedia (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js).

I love Wikipedia, but boy, if I had to identify a single site that shatters my focus, it’s Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia has to be the perfect example of the tension between more information and information overload.

Can you provide any hints why this exclusion is there? Is there any way around this? Are there any plans to remove this exclusion?

]]> By: Bennett McElwee http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9677 Bennett McElwee Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:32:55 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9677 I love Readability. it's pretty much perfect when reading on-screen. However, printed pages demand special handling of links. Here are my suggestions: In normal (non-footnote) mode, style hyperlinks like normal text (no underlines, etc.). After all, on a printed page they are not hyperlinks any more! In footnote mode, display footnotes with their full URL instead of just the domain. Otherwise they aren't much use. Do these with a print style sheet so that the on-screen display doesn't have to change. I love Readability. it’s pretty much perfect when reading on-screen. However, printed pages demand special handling of links. Here are my suggestions:

In normal (non-footnote) mode, style hyperlinks like normal text (no underlines, etc.). After all, on a printed page they are not hyperlinks any more!

In footnote mode, display footnotes with their full URL instead of just the domain. Otherwise they aren’t much use.

Do these with a print style sheet so that the on-screen display doesn’t have to change.

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]]> By: Haakon http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9527 Haakon Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:10:36 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9527 How you manage to make this solution even better tells me you guys should probably just go in to your bosses office (if applicable :P ) and demand 1337% more... okay that was cheesy but thanks for making a seeing person able to read again! ;) How you manage to make this solution even better tells me you guys should probably just go in to your bosses office (if applicable :P ) and demand 1337% more…
okay that was cheesy but thanks for making a seeing person able to read again! ;)

]]> By: Babatunde Adeyemi http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/03/readability-updated-an-end-to-the-yank-of-the-hyperlink/#comment-9516 Babatunde Adeyemi Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:08:47 +0000 http://blog.arc90.com/?p=787#comment-9516 A day rarely passes without my use of this tool. Thanks for creating such an amazing tool A day rarely passes without my use of this tool. Thanks for creating such an amazing tool

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