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,
I think I'd personally prefer the other page elements to remain in place,
but have their brightness dimmed down (the way Youtube/Hulu/etc. have a
turn down the lights feature - perhaps this is what Mike meant by
lightboxes?). For this to work well it would probably also have to stop
running flash
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,
