Was it the writing that was too long or the time that was too short?Įxupéry’s dictum can be re-purposed to remind us that too much has been added to web pages. The abbreviation TL DR - for “too long didn’t read” - is often wheeled out. Finding the place and the time to read doesn’t get any easier. These screens are almost metaphors for our lives. Progressive enhancements to the capabilities of HTML, to our hardware devices and to the browsers they run now mean that the screens we read from are jam-packed with content, much of it fragmented, scattered round the screen, boxing in a single piece of content. As far back as 1993 was when the Mosaic browser unveiled the img tag proposed by Marc Andreessen which enabled the display of images. Text was gloriously unencrusted with cruft. There’s irony in all of this because the first web pages were feeble things with near-zero capability for styling. Surround the content we read with links, snippets, sidebar images, menus and - chief culprit - animated adverts and it is often a miracle that we remain up to the task. Give us even a short text and present it to us in a web page on-screen and the challenge becomes different again. Take away the aeroplane and place us in the present day and the level of distraction is of a different order, not less but more. Even strapped into a pilot’s seat - albeit as an officer who called most of the shots, reading a novel was something that could be slotted into even the busiest corners of the 1930s and 1940s. This is a story that reaches us out of a past that is truly another country. To find out whether a tab is already in Reader Mode, check the isInReaderMode property of writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Toulouse, 1933. To find out whether a page is an article, check the isArticle property of tabs.Tab. Pages that don't have an identifiable article are not eligible for display in Reader Mode. Reader Mode is useful specifically for articles: meaning, pages that have a body of text content as their main feature.
This function toggles Reader Mode for the given tab. Differences between API implementations.
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