Safari reader view on iOS devices loads infinite pages

I just heard back from Dave, he’s still busy. So that’s a bust.

But my point remains: what we need is a person, not a device. We could look for a dev on Upwork, but it seems like a lot of hassle for a small bug. I wonder if there’s anywhere we can look for a dev who might be helpful?

I know this is a long time ago but can you (or somebody) check on Safari how this is doing now with the new site? Thanks!

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https://www.browserstack.com/ ?

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Nice try. But no time myself :slight_smile:

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I would but I don’t have any iOS devices :upside_down_face:

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Dear Ven. @Vimala
The new site does not seem to offer reader view in Safari.

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I thought it was a browser-option rather than a site option. But looking on Firefox I see that it only is available for sites with plain html markup and not for others. Thanks for your help and pointing me in the right direction!

Venerable,
It’s not just plain HTML. There’s an algorithm which looks at the markup of the divs etc and determines if there is a large readable block of text. My guess is that it sees the new markup as smaller blocks but needs a ‘wrapper’ to consider them as a complete article. I looked into it briefly yesterday but didn’t perform any of my own tests on the markup for SC

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I suspect that it cannot read inside Shadow Dom.

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