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

Jules Field sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 9 15:55:17 BST 2010



On 09/06/2010 15:52, Steve Harris wrote:
> On 2010-06-09, at 14:16, Philip Boulain wrote:
>
>    
>> 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.)
>>      
> I wish. Ugly web content net adverts upset me.
>    
ClickToFlash and Safari AdBlock are a good starting point, but the 
"Reader" button is way better :-)

Jules

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