A reader-view feature would be needed.
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A Former User last edited by
Currently, a reader-view mode, a welcome feature, because so useful regarding the damaging nature of so many web pages for eyes, is not present. Such a feature, realized in a user-friendly way, would be so that activating a such mode would come with a vertical bar on one side of the screen. Regarding the bar, the feature would provide the options either to hide it permanently or automatically, on demand (showing a discrete arrow when hided). The bar would automatically adjusts its color to the selected available background color so that it would avoid annoying eye-consuming contrast. The reader-view mode icon itself would sit into the URL field (right or left) with a specific color regarding to its state (activated or inactivated).
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A Former User last edited by
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This feature is native and it is very well implemented in Safari for macOS.
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HanzoX7 last edited byYes... I was pleasantly surprised by Edge's reader mode. I'm not going back to Edge just for the reader mode, but this would make a nice addition.
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A Former User last edited by
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This feature is native and it is very well implemented in Safari for macOS.Where is this reader mode in Safari? I do not see it anywhere. I have looked in the Preferences everywhere and in all the menus. Do you mean preview as PDF?
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Deleted User last edited by
I would love to see the feature in Opera.
@concretable The icon with three and a half lines to the very left of the address bar.
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A Former User last edited by
What I have immediately to the left of the address bar is a Toggle Web Inspector button. Maybe reader mode is only for Windows?
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Deleted User last edited by
@concretable Oh, I thought you were asking about Safari. No, there is no reader mode on Windows either. I am sure Opera will introduce the feature on all platforms if they do.
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A Former User last edited by
I was asking about Safari. With Safari on MacOS 10.12.5, I see no icon with three and a half lines next to the address bar. What is there is a Web Inspector toggle button.
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zalex108 last edited byRead articles clutter-free with Safari Reader
Or
Keyboard combination Shift+cmd+R
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A Former User last edited by
I see. With many sites it does not show up at all. If I mouse over the left end of the address bar when that symbol does not show up, I get a plus sign.
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Deleted User last edited by
@concretable You have that right. It is not available for all pages, although I have never encountered it when I wanted to use the feature, so I am assuming it is unavailable only for pages that are poorly designed.
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zalex108 last edited by
Clearly extension or Readable... bookmarklet could do it.
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A Former User last edited by
This has to be one of the most frustrating omissions in Opera.
Yes, there are extensions two available but both are seriously flawed. I find myself going back to Firefox when I need to read long articles online (FF reader view is perfect!).
Reader View
https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.htmlThis adds an icon in the address bar and works reliably EXCEPT (1) for some reason the developer limited the maximum font size to quite a small font and (2) for some reason article titles and subtitles are missing.
Reader View (offered by www.bernardi.cloud)
(from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reader-view/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl)
"This is a porting of Firefox Reader View"
If only this were true! This provides a far better view BUT (1) it is not reliable - you usually have to reload the tab once or twice to get the icon to activate, and (2) the "Sepia" background is anything but and is annoyingly far too bright. With these issues fixed it would be perfect.
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A Former User last edited by
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@thunderclutch: Yeah, these extensions are not that good...
Reader View by bernarpa
pros:- adds icon in adress bar
cons: - No images are displayed on some sites
- on some articles it omits the title
- some small images and icons are messed up and shown very huge
Reader View by rneomy (currently my favourite)
pros:- big letters
- good readability
cons: - icon within many other extension icons if one has lot of installed extensions
- no images on some sites
- adds icon in adress bar
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A Former User last edited by
I just saw a tiny intelligent snipped (CSS) on Twitter. Perhaps reader-mode not that "hard" to come by, but then again internet is wast so probably it might take time to sweeting it correctly.
