Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-19 Thread hiro
> I forwarded your email to Amazon. The patent has been granted. Thanks, I provide free licenses for list members who help me sue Hitler, Putin, Obama and friends.

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-19 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 19 December 2011 17:51, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > It was taken out of the context of an article found on Al Jazeera > arguing that people should be dictated by benevolent "intellectuals" > ethically ignorant of contemporary and local problems that don't > brainwash people through news media.

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-19 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 12/19/11, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > It's a good quote that I think I had yet to see. But I knew the > communists also used such unique methods. > It was taken out of the context of an article found on Al Jazeera arguing that people should be dictated by benevolent "intellectuals" eth

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-19 Thread hiro
It's a good quote that I think I had yet to see. But I knew the communists also used such unique methods. Shortly after my last post yesterday I heard there's a book now (about 300 pages I think) about how mankind overall got less violent. It should be clear to anyone that only the recent technolo

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-19 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
> Even if HTML5 were the only standard around, people would still misuse > it untill you guys enable me to one-click-slay (TM) them. > "Of course, all seducers of the masses, potential tyrants or fanatics, have used this argument to make their case; the communists did the same when they declared th

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-18 Thread hiro
> After you've shot all writers of HTML 4, lawyers, politicians, > programmers and designers? And expect people to listen to and support > your political theories? They will when I build giant killing machines in HTML5, but I fear the migration of my SOAP to IPV6 and DNSSEC might cause random head

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-18 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 12/18/11, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I would approve if the existence of HTML5 meant anyone using the older > HTML4 features got killed. Most of the novelties of HTML5 are complementary to the elements of HTML 2 and 4. HTML3 Plus was documentation of a bunch of bells and whistles impl

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-18 Thread hiro
> True, but that doesn't mean certain elements of HTML5 aren't an > improvement. I personally love , , , , > , and , since if they are used it means I can reliably > strip out only the useful parts of a page and leave the mess that is > the graphic designers' web behind. Go progress! I would appro

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-13 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
I don't know if this is something you should add into stock simplyread, but my suckless stylesheet columnates text to make it readable on wide screens without too much paging. I reckon Webkit is able to columnate text. I used a column-count dependent on viewport width, but Opera doesn't rem

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 13 December 2011 08:43, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > HTML5 has not been invented to make parsing easier to us. Spare us > with your hope. True, but that doesn't mean certain elements of HTML5 aren't an improvement. I personally love , , , , , and , since if they are used it means I can

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-13 Thread hiro
HTML5 has not been invented to make parsing easier to us. Spare us with your hope.

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-12 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 12 December 2011 22:35, Nick wrote: > Yep. One of the disadvantages of the super-simple algorithm is that > odd HTML isn't always well handled. But that's always going to be > the case, to an extent. Fair enough. I noticed pretty much every other readability plugin failed when encountering an

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-12 Thread Nick
Quoth Connor Lane Smith: > Much much much better! Woopdeedoo. > 1. Sometimes it only displays a subsection of an article. e.g., [1]. > [1]: http://blog.asmartbear.com/startup-hiring-advice.html Yep. One of the disadvantages of the super-simple algorithm is that odd HTML isn't always well handl

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-12 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 12 December 2011 18:37, Nick wrote: > I mentioned briefly in another thread that I'd made a nicer, much > simpler alternative to readable and its kin; simplyread. Well, > mostly people hated that it removed links, and in some cases that it > added its own style. These things can now be tu

[dev] simplyread

2011-12-12 Thread Nick
Hi good fellows, I mentioned briefly in another thread that I'd made a nicer, much simpler alternative to readable and its kin; simplyread. Well, mostly people hated that it removed links, and in some cases that it added its own style. These things can now be turned on & off in your preferred