Firefox Reader View Primer Tutorial
We’re big fans of “Reader Views” in the modern web browsers. Firefox has got one called … you guessed it … “Reader View”.
The idea behind “Reader Views” is that they offer to declutter views of “selected” webpage data. “Selected”? Read on …
Why does Firefox Reader View sometimes display the error message “Failed to load article from page”?
Our short answer is ‘it happens when encountering “malformed” HTML’ (where “malformed” is in the eye of the Reader View code) and read more here.
How does Firefox Reader View do its decluttering?
Please read Richard Neish and Martin conversation, thanks (and to Stack Overflow) at this link.
When does Firefox Reader View fire for a web page’s contents?
You need at least one <p> tag around the text, you want to see in Reader View and at least 516 characters in 7 words inside the text.
for example this will trigger the ReaderView:
<body>
<p>
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</p>
</body>
See my example at https://stackoverflow.com/a/30750212/1069083
… read more …
Where in the browser menus does Firefox Reader View functionality happen?
On a Mac OS X MacBook Pro Firefox web browser, if it suits your content, it is at View->Enter Reader View
Which browsers have a Reader View?
- Firefox’s readerview
- Microsoft’s Read later thing
- Chrome’s Readability
- Evernote’s Clearly
- Safari’s Reading List
… got from this useful link, thanks
Do mobile platforms have Reader View functionality?
There is Firefox for Android support, at the very least.
Who started Reader Views on the Internet?
Maybe it was Microsoft (Mar 4, 2014) …
Reading view is a new feature in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8.1 that helps you focus on the main content of the Web page you want to read. Reading view is a way to experience just the article or blog post you want to read, without the distractions of related (or unrelated) content surrounding the story. Find an article you want to read, switch to reading view, and settle into a great reading experience. When you’re done, just exit reading view to continue browsing on the site.
… and read more …
Our tutorial picture, today, explains how we got around some malformed (in Firefox Reader View’s view) HTML to, at first, be getting the error message “Failed to load article from page”, and then getting around this.
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