An icon should appear allowing a page to be viewed in Reader Mode (as well as a menu item) however for SC pages no such icon appears
Almost works (and might not be fixable?)
Push to Kindle (also plugin)
What’s happening
Users should be able to convert a page to a kindle book and send it to their device.
Even if only English is shown on the page being converted, Pali and English appears in the created book
FireFox Reader view
What’s happening
Web pages should allow the user to press F9 and convert the page to a simplified reading view.
Even if only English is shown on the page being converted, Pali and English appears in the created book
Interesting, I’ve never heard of lightDOM before, Venerable @sujato . May it go smoothly!
Here’s a wild and crazy idea: somehow additionally publish all the suttacentral.net content using the Gemini protocol. The Gemini protocol is very purposely made simple, and therefore lends itself to straightforward recursive downloading of said content, with a tool like gemget.
Then one can view the content offline, in the same simple format that it was published in. No epic battles against Javascript!
Most of these things should now work with SC. Anyway Weava does, but I can’t test all of them.
If the problem was something other than ShadowDOM, it won’t be affected.
And BTWs, maybe you’d be interested to publish a thread explaining how Weava works? It seems like the kind of extension that many users might find handy.
Sorry, I don’t know anything about that, but anyone is welcome to build this against our API.
Great!!! Thank you Bhante and everyone who worked on this.
I have tested the Push to Kindle site. This is an example of a paragraph that it will find and output.
So I have heard. Evaṁ me sutaṁ— At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.
This was generated from a page that only had the English showing. So that’s not bad.
For the Joplin web clipper, doing a “simplified page” gives Pali and English even when only English is on the page clipped. “Complete page” gives just the Pali. In both cases, anchors are included.
FireFox reader view is similar to the above two in that the Pali and English is all together even when doing a page with only English.
Reader Mode still doesn’t work on chrome, meaning that the icon and menu item don’t appear on SC sutta pages.
Yeah, not much can be done about that. The language segments are just wrapped in spans, so any third-party app will just display them as inline. You can’t use divs for this, as it will stuff up the regular paragraph view.
It’s a weird beast, it seems Chrome really doesn’t want people to use it. Presumably because there are no ads.
Right. I was really just including it in case it gave any clues to figuring out what was going on.
That’s what I figured. Interestingly, the Joplin “Clip complete page” only pulls out the English. But as you said, that’s really on the third party apps.
Honestly I’m always very hesitant to because I know how much work (or at least I can imagine a fraction of it) goes into the site. I hate to point out any shortcomings, especially since it’s not like you and your team are just sitting around on your hands waiting for things to do.
