[OSX-Users] Re: Safari 5 - Safari Reader

[Leslie Carr]

OK. I see. It's just an enormous hack with lots of RE's.
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Les


On 9 Jun 2010, at 10:47, Nick Gibbins wrote:

> ...and for those of us that use other browsers, there's Readability:
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> http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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> (the open source tool that Apple integrated into Safari to make reader)
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> Nick
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> On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:46, Leslie Carr wrote:
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>> I just installed Safari 5, and I'm quite liking the safari reader. However, I'm completely flummoxed as to how it's deciding what's an article, and what parts of the DOM make the article's body. Does anyone have any technical documentation?
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>> for example, on my home page (users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lac), it picks out the <div> immediately preceded by the comment <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main Content" -->
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>> whereas on the NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Squatters-t.html
>> it finds the <div class="articleBody"> and successfully links up pages joined by <a class="next"/>
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>> WTF?
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>> Les
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