Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. Left-Click the toolbar/button to view text through Readability. Right-Click the button to configure the style. Also available via the context menu and the View menu. Javascript required.
Enjoy!
COMMENTS/QUESTIONS welcomed.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2010 08:20AM by jsnj.
Only you need make a link in your Personal Bookmarks Toolbar:
javascript: (function(){readStyle='style-newspaper';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_script);_readability_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability.css';_readability_css.type='text/css';_readability_css.media='screen';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_css);_readability_print_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_print_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_print_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability-print.css';_readability_print_css.media='print';_readability_print_css.type='text/css';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_print_css);})();
For those of us using Favorites rather than bookmarks, the code from desga2 can be put in a hotlink. It works quite well from there. Thanks much to desga2 for listing the code.
I have it in the toolbar but when I click on it I get a new empty tab. There must be something wrong with my configuration but I can't find out what.
Re: readability javascript bookmarklet
Posted by:
blackdaemon
Date: October 29, 2009 02:24AM
I guess you have enabled the setting for opening Netscape bookmarks in new tab.
Unfortunately this setting will open new tab also for any bookmarklet.
I had same problem for GMarks bookmarklet.
Thanks blackdaemon - don't know how I missed that.
I have now identified the problem using the error console and bookmarks edit - the javascript is too long to fit in the url field by 14 characters.
What do I do about that?
thanks
Quote Matt
Readability works great, thanks jsnj. Only the Error Console isn't happy with GetReadOptions{.
Glad you like. Error console's a picky lil b*tch isn't it I forgot the ; at the end of line 11 after defining the $_readability variable. Not gonna update the addon/extension just for that though since it doesn't really effect performance.
maybe dorian updated it in 1.1.6? i test with 1.1.4 to ensure backwards compatibility as much as possible because there's a certain someone who refuses to update from 1.1.3 (yes.. you know who you are )
Quote disrupted
maybe dorian updated it in 1.1.6? i test with 1.1.4 to ensure backwards compatibility as much as possible because there's a certain someone who refuses to update from 1.1.3 (yes.. you know who you are )
Who? Me?
PS: Thanks for looking out for us 1.1.x folks!
LOL. Bit busy this week, but I'll take a look sometime next week and see if it's doable, unless disrupted wants to do it. He usually pops'm out quickly