Comment by carlosjobim
3 days ago
The advantages of this:
- Every website has the same accessible layout
- Blocks advertisements
- Blocks popups and auto playing videos
- Blocks cookie banners
- Blocks newsletter signup modals
- Blocks sticky headers and all distractions
- Auto dark/light mode on all websites
- Choose your preferred colour theme, font, font size and margins and it applies to all websites
- Images are presented neatly
- Inline videos are presented neatly
- Space bar to scroll down, shift+space bar to scroll up
- J/K to scroll between HTML elements (usually next paragraph)
- Can be disabled on a per-domain basis for when it's not suitable
The downsides:
- There are no downsides
I've tried Reader Mode, but Safari's Reader Mode doesn't properly display JavaScript elements, such as my footNote popups, and some YouTube videos also fail to load correctly. Additionally, embedded Google Maps within this article don't appear accurately, and many website layouts get distorted. Furthermore, current Reader Modes on major browsers predominantly rely on scrolling, which isn't ideal for E Ink. These shortcomings are pain for E Ink users and this is why I'm advocating for this alternative mode.
I completely agree. When it comes to eInk, then classic reader mode scrolling is an inconvenience. But compared to normal browsing, it is great. As for distorting website layouts, that is usually a bonus. Reader mode + standardized website navigation layout would be the golden solution.
space and shift space always work, but I didn't know about j/k, thanks!