Forum Discussion
Reading View in Insider Channels
Some feedback now halfway through September 2019, on build dev 78.0.268.3:
- I'm still hoping the shortcut key will start working. Ctrl+Shift+R still just refreshes the page. It's a great tip (and writing the shortcut key in a tooltip when you hover over the reading mode icon would be great for discoverability, too).
- Triggering the customization bar (font size, bg color) is unusual: you need to scroll up and hover? I think the more common "scroll up, menu appears--scroll down, menu disappears" logic is more more familiar and easy to use. It reduces friction because there's no extra mouse movement: on a laptop, you're forced to switch from two-finger scrolling back to one-finger moving just to get the menu to appear. And for new users, it's hard to know which blank space of the browser you need to hover.
- Some sites in reading view create these weird bullets with just a singular "o. Can these be filtered out algorithmically? I see them on plenty of sites & will send smiley's when I see them now.
- Maybe it's only enabled for some dev users, but I'll be very excited to use grammar tools and definitions once they're finally shipping to 100% of dev users.
An example URL for the bullets with just an "o" inside: read://www.laptopmag.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laptopmag.com%2Farticles%2Fnew-microsoft-surface-benchmarked-intel-ice-lake-report
@Elliot Kirk I have mentioned this in the past, but can we please not have user interfaces which RELY on "hovering" over various screen elements? Scroll bars that don't appear until you "hover" over the right hand side of the page/screen. Menus that appear when you "hover" over a certain element.
I use reading view on my Surface (no mouse)- with all it's quirks, its still more readable than the bare page. My wife's kindle is even worse - no concept of "hover" except paging left or right, just point and stab randomly at areas of the screen until you find the right hot spot.
Nuff said