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

[Philip Boulain]

On 9 Jun 2010, at 10:47, Nick Gibbins wrote:
> ...and for those of us that use other browsers, there's Readability:
> http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
> (the open source tool that Apple integrated into Safari to make  
> reader)

Amusingly, the open source devs congratulated Apple on working on  
something similar to their own efforts before realising that Apple  
had actually just used their code without a word:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/08/ 
safari_reader_based_on_open_source_project/

http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/07/safari-5-another-step-towards-better- 
reading-on-the-web/ *

I also find it kind of amusing that Apple add what is effectively ad- 
stripping at the same time as adding an advertising framework to iOS.  
(Although I just checked, and ads for the latter are going to have to  
be approved by Apple, so Steve's presumably just trying to make sure  
that all advertising in his little computing world is aesthetically  
pleasing to him.)

Phil
* I particularly like how a bunch of obsessives about Nice Text on  
the web have managed to mangle their stylesheet such that the  
emphasised text in that article suddenly jumps from a sans-serif to a  
serif font. Also their web design has a link bar and a "follow us on $ 
{SOCIAL_NETWORK}"; the kind of cruft their tool removes. Hee hee.

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