Reading list in Reader View
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Is there a way to add a simple option to open all pages saved in Reading List directly in Reader View when you go to them?
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@apanthropist That’s not really possible, since there is no guarantee a page saved to the reading list will have reader view available.
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@luetage But if Vivaldi could add a toggle for Reader View, then the user could enable it or not according to their desires and the web pages they are looking at, and play the percentages that most of the sites they look at are usable in Reader View. (And that's a heck of a sentence.)
Also, it looks like if you open a page in Reader View and then add that to the Reading List, it reopens it in Reader View when you go back to it. A workaround but a bit tedious compared to a toggle option.
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@apanthropist Use single key shortcuts and just toggle reader view when you visit the page. I don’t see the issue.
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The reading list has just been added today in the Vivaldi 5.1 update, over time, we will improve it and include new features, as well as the rest of the browser.
At the moment, it is not an option that is available, however, Vivaldi has a built-in reader that you can activate with a function (F2) or mouse gestures. Read more here
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@luetage Huh? Single key shortcuts?
Toddles off to help pages and settings.
Oh, well sure. Of course, that is an option — which I've now enabled.
Learns something new every day. Only trouble is forgets two things every day.
But I still think a permanently toggled option would be better, at least for me.
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@realmat0s The truth is that many of the smaller features that get added over time leave production and are rarely being touched again. A good example for this is reader view actually. It’s some old version of the open source Mozilla Readability, which was forked ages ago from the original
readability.js
. There have been bug updates but not too many improvements. And it doesn’t seem like Vivaldi intends to improve on it (fork it). Sessions is another example. -
You are right about Reader View. Look the extension Reader View:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reader-view/ecabifbgmdmgdllomnfinbmaellmclnh
"Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability"
Many many features that the built-in not have.
It has "Custom Styling":
"Automatic Switch":
And "Read this article":
The point is:
If you are going to implement a feature that many extensions execute study them, and do it equal or better or not do it.