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Re: "Readability" feature in eww
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Yoni Rabkin |
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Re: "Readability" feature in eww |
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Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:30:31 -0500 |
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> It occurred to me that it would probably make sense for eww to have a
> "readability" feature a couple of hours ago, so I implemented a take on
> it and committed it.
>
> The `R' command in eww will try to find the parts of the current page
> where most of the text is, and only display that part. This makes all
> the menus and stuff disappear, and you don't have to page forever to
> find the actual article on newspaper sites.
>
> This is a heuristic, of course, so it can be tweaked endlessly. The
> current algorithm just gives most words a positive score, HTML markup a
> negative score, and words inside <a> tags a negative score. For such a
> simple algorithm, it seems to give pretty good results.
>
> But tweaking is necessary for it to be ... better. If anybody has ideas
> for tweaks or better algorithms, please be my guest and have at it.
One thing I've found significantly increases readability for me is far
simpler: I disable color in `eww-tag-body'. Rendering color, especially
background color, doesn't necessarily make sense when you use a purely
textual display.
I always work with a dark background, so when Eww renders a full white
background and, say, light blue text the page becomes unreadable.
I could send in a patch which makes color rending in the body optional;
it's definitely how I will be using Eww going forward.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
- "Readability" feature in eww, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/02
- Re: "Readability" feature in eww,
Yoni Rabkin <=
- Colour selection in shr (was: "Readability" feature in eww), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Yoni Rabkin, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Achim Gratz, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/03
- Re: Colour selection in shr, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/03