Reading View

I've been using the experimental reading view (edge://flags - edge-reading-view) for a few more days now, and I think that reading view is functioning reasonably well at this point. 

Like reading view in Edge (Classic), reading view in Edge Chromium is unpredictable about when it will, and when it will not, render graphics in reading view (see the initial post for examples), and that can be a problem when reading technical articles (e.g. an article I read this morning about a security bug that contained a process flowchart essential to understand the issue).  I don't what lie behind the graphics problem (sometimes Edge (Classic) reading view doesn't display, other times Edge Chromium reading view doesn't display, and it seems almost random) and the problem is not endemic, so it is probably something to learn to live with in Edge Chromium, just as it was in Edge (Classic).

I use reading view primarily to read longer, often technical, web articles (stuff that is long enough that I want to be able to read it without ads and other visual distractions).  I am coming to prefer Edge Chromium's vertical reading scroll to Edge (Classic's) horizontal scroll.  Vertical scrolling seems to work better with laptops with 1366 x 768 resolution on a 11-13" screen than does horizontal scrolling. 

That's just a matter of preference, I suppose, but I would not suggest that the Edge team should be in a rush to mimic Edge (Classic)'s reading view, with a "headline" domination the first panel, and horizontal scrolling through subsequent panels

I've noticed that Edge Chromium's reading view seems a bit "washed out" -- less crisp -- than Edge (Classic)'s.  I suspect that this is directly related to font rendering in Edge Chromium, discussed extensively in other threads.

On the wish list:  Allow users to specify serif or sans-serif font style in reading view.  At present, reading view uses a serif font (most likely Times New Roman), and many users might prefer to use a sans-serif font.

I'm going to keep using reading view as much as possible, running it in tandem with reading view in Edge (Classic), to see if I can isolate any serious issues.  So far, so good.