{"id":658,"date":"2010-03-06T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T06:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2010-03-06T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T06:34:16","slug":"a-quick-word-on-readability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/658","title":{"rendered":"A quick word on Readability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bookmarklet\">bookmarklets<\/a> which are javascript tools you can add to your browser&#8217;s bookmark menu (or bar) to extend the functionality of your browser without having to resort to a browser-specific plug-ins. One I ran across recently is called <a href=\"http:\/\/lab.arc90.com\/experiments\/readability\/\">Readability<\/a> and I find myself using it more and more often. It reformats the current page you are on to a single-column display with all of the extra advertising and layout &#8216;noise&#8217; to make reading much more comfortable and enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick demonstration of how it works. It&#8217;s free, easy, and quite nice.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8798492&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8798492\">Readability &#8211; Installation Video for Firefox, Safari &amp; Chrome<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/arc90\">Arc90<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of bookmarklets which are javascript tools you can add to your browser&#8217;s bookmark menu (or bar) to extend the functionality of your browser without having to resort to a browser-specific plug-ins. One I ran across recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}