What is this button and why doesn't it work? (DiscoFireFoxBug)
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Firefox's Reader Mode, and because Dischorse
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It's the reader mode button, which they stole from IE.
It doesn't work because of Discourse's extreme hostility towards pretty much everything.
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Just some minutes ago, fieforks updated with reader mode for me. (and can't forget Save to Pocket™ )
I tried it on discourse and it showed just the first post (or a couple?)
Now, I visit here again and I don't see the reader mode icon anywhere, even though I still see it on some other sitesI'd be perplexed if I haven't absolutely given up on getting any further added value from friedfrocks and Dascroise both.
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I tried it on discourse and it showed just the first post (or a couple?)
Each post is in an article tag so that makes sense.
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Each post is in an article tag
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So for whatever reason, I can see the button in http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/wtf-is-happening-with-windows-10/49256 but not in http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/designer-rant/49257.
The reader view of the former also seems to now have the avatars and quite a few posts (how ever many were loaded, most likely).
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Each post is in an article tag
Holy shit, so it is.
The article element represents a component of a page that consists of a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that is intended to be independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content.
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Yeah, it's not how the tag is always used but it isn't exactly unreasonable either. A "download an article" feature should probably check for other articles/size of the article before pulling just one into a reader mode.
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Why the hell does it exist? SEO?
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a user-submitted comment
Why does the HTML standard treat a YouTube comment as equivalent to a newspaper article?
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That's true. It's unfair to youtube commenters.
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a user-submitted comment
Why does the HTML standard treat a YouTube comment as equivalent to a newspaper article?Because it could be a place with long well reasoned user posts (they do supposedly exist).
: and @boomzilla's comment re: newspapers