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The Safari Reader Arms Race

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the prefer-paper-rock-scissors dept.

JimLynch writes "Apple, by adding Reader to Safari 5, is essentially trying to force an e-book style interface onto the web reading experience. It will never work out over the long haul because web publishers will resist and the end result will be an arms race, with publishers on one side and Apple on the other." Another unmentioned issue is that sometimes it doesn't work. I've found pages where content is omitted from the reader UI.

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  1. Re:Force? by azmodean+1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Try AutoPager for Firefox, it addresses several of your concerns, and from what I gather is far more configurable.