Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle'
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 month agoNot 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.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Almost nothing has Gemini support though…
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