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[Solved] Make Reading View button available on All web pages and websites. Make it a Fixed button
ikjadoon gardenvv290 Elliot Kirk
So I just noticed in Edge Version 81.0.396.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit), you can actually turn any page or better say, any content in a web page, into immersive reader (reading view) mode.
even though there are many web pages that don't have the required tags to trigger the immersive reader button to show up on Edge, now you can highlight or select a specific part of a web page such as texts or images, or just press CTRL + A to select everything and then right-click and choose "open in immersive reader".
this is useful in 2 cases
- on pages that you can already use immersive reader button because it shows up at top on the address bar but you only want to have some of the parts of the page in immersive reader mode.
- on pages that don't support immersive reader at all, you can select all of the page or only parts of it and turn them into immersive reader mode.
This is a great feature added, Thanks for listening to the feedback, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you for the suggestion, HotCakeX. I will make sure the right teams hear about it. Just curious, for many sites the Distilled web offers no content. What kinds of sites do you find the distilled web most useful for? Thanks - Elliot
Actually, only slightly off-topic:
For web developers, one workaround that's sorely needed is explaining how to make sites compatible with Reading View.
Using semantic HTML5 tags is not always and there's https://www.client9.com/designing-html-for-safari-reader-mode/. Some higher-end CMS have gone through this painstakingly to reverse engineer how browsers work, but browsers should now (and should've in the past) given clear explanations of how the DOM should be structured and/or tagged.
Barring that kind of needed developer transparency, I support adding a distill function. Let people read websites how they want to read them.
ikjadoon gardenvv290 Elliot Kirk
So I just noticed in Edge Version 81.0.396.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit), you can actually turn any page or better say, any content in a web page, into immersive reader (reading view) mode.
even though there are many web pages that don't have the required tags to trigger the immersive reader button to show up on Edge, now you can highlight or select a specific part of a web page such as texts or images, or just press CTRL + A to select everything and then right-click and choose "open in immersive reader".
this is useful in 2 cases
- on pages that you can already use immersive reader button because it shows up at top on the address bar but you only want to have some of the parts of the page in immersive reader mode.
- on pages that don't support immersive reader at all, you can select all of the page or only parts of it and turn them into immersive reader mode.
This is a great feature added, Thanks for listening to the feedback, that's exactly what I was looking for.
- It seriously works, thanks a lot
