Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle'

teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not every device with a built in web browser has reader view (like the kobo I showed). I believe firefox reader requires you download the whole webpage first and then post formats. Newswaffle is useful If your limited on data, don’t want your connection touching the servers of the news site, or just like how it formats sites over a reader view.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not every device with a built in web browser has reader view (like the kobo I showed)

    Almost nothing has Gemini support though…

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    • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True! Most browsers don’t have native gemini protocol support. However a web proxy like the ones I shared allow you to get gemini support no matter the web browser. Gemtext is a simplified version of markdown which means its not too hard to convert from gemtext to html/webpage. So, by scraping information from bloated websites, formatting it into the simple gemtext format markdown, then mirroring it back as a simple web/html page, it works together nicely to re-render bloated sites on simple devices using gemini as a formatting medium technology. You don’t really need to understand gemini protocol to use newswaffle+portal.mozz.us in your regular web browser

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• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can’t use Firefox reader on an e-reader or cli, numbnuts.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh look, another rude jackass for the block list.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or don’t be a “rude jackass” and discredit entire projects coz you don’t know what you’re talking about?

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    why not? plenty of them run android, do they maintain a blacklist of sorts?

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