Comment by albert_e
16 hours ago
Offtopic but --
The "Listen to article" media player at the top of the post -- was super quick to load on mobile but took two attempts and a page refresh to load on desktop.
If I want to listen as well as read the article ... the media player scrolls out of view along with the article title as we scroll down ..leaving us with no way to control (pause/play) the audio if needed.
There are no playback controls other than pause and speed selector. So we cannot seek or skip forward/backward if we miss a sentence. the time display on the media player is also minimal. Wish these were a more accessible standardized feature set available on demand and not limited by what the web designer of each site decides.
I asked "Claude on Chrome" extension to fix the media player to the top. It took 2 attempts to get it right. (It was using Haiku by default -- may be a larger model was needed for this task). I think there is scope to create a standard library for such client side tweaks to web pages -- sort of like greasemonkey user scripts but at a slightly higher level of abstraction with natural language prompts.
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