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Comment by ronnier | Hacker News Reader

All pages, one click: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/...

Have we discussed ViewText here? I'm impressed. I think I may start using this instead of readability.

I don't think so, other than me posting links on HN threads for articles that need it (such as this NYT article). But thanks! It's mostly based on readability, not 100% though. I ported Readbility (JavaScript) to C#.

Is it okay if I link to it from historious for formatting webpages?

Yup! That's really the intended use, for others to provide links to articles from within their apps. That's what I did for http://ihackernews.com (HN for iPhone/Android).

Fantastic, thank you. I used Google Mobilizer before, but it didn't format the site nicely, so I wasn't convinced that it was useful at all (most mobile devices can display full-blown webpages and the Kindle has an "article mode" that's basically readability).

Your tool joins pages as well, which is fantastically useful, and formats the page nicely, which is, again, very handy. I'm not sure this feature belongs in historious (rather than having people do it themselves), but I've linked to you for now, thank you for providing this service!

Nice work! Can I integrate this service with my HN Mobile Front Page Reader? http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/11/hacker-news-mobile-front-page...

Sure! I love to see others using it :)

Looking at the most popular URLs on ViewText, only HN users know about it.

On another note: "it's" instead of "its" in the <title> description made me scowl.

Fixed, thanks.

Looks good, but fails if you enter a https url. Shame really.

The https problem is now fixed. For example, the https version of this article:

http://viewtext.org/article?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010...

It's created by Ronnie Roller[1] the same guy that created ihackernews[2].

ihackernews is the best way to view news.yc on a smart phone. And viewtext is incorporated there to ensure that pages are readable.

I've had very good experiences with both. Thanks Ronnie.

[1] http://ronnieroller.com/

[2] http://ihackernews.com/

Readability.js is a eyesaver, but it's behaviour with mixed-content pages can be a bit wonky. Also, slow for some reason.

Is it possible to detect the author credits at the end of each individual page and move them all to the end of the aggregate page?

I'm sure it's possible. I'll look into it.

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