I love this feature and it has changed how I
read. Do we know of any
browser extensions that do same? Yosemite has a native spotlight built-in
that works in any browser (I'm using chrome), but it is hard to discover
(command-ctrl-d).
Meta screenshot:
[image: Inline image 2]
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
FWIW, they are also doing basically the same
thing in the e-ink
hardware Kindles.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> +mobile-l
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Okay to move this to mobile-l?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, June 5, 2015, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> While they strip out links/citations, they do preserve text
>>> formatting (italics & bold).
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Bernd Sitzmann <bernd(a)wikimedia.org
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nice find. I also like being able to swipe those cards left/right
>>>> between different information sources. Looks like depending on the
selected
>>>> words it's: Dictionary, Wikipedia, Translation
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was using the Kindle app on the plane today, and I noticed a few
>>>>> interesting things, including this:
>>>>>
>>>>> device-2015-06-04-225651.png
>>>>>
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0BzcksMsMNpY1SzA3bHY4WF9hM1U/edit?usp=drive_web>
>>>>>
>>>>> When highlighting a word or phrase, the user is presented with a
>>>>> definition of the word from Wikipedia. The content is presented in a
native
>>>>> component, with only the first section of text shown (all links,
>>>>> references, infoboxes, etc. are stripped out). (I wonder what API
they're
>>>>> using?)
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks very similar to the link preview prototypes we've been
>>>>> developing in our apps, and it's very telling that the Kindle app
has such
>>>>> a feature, since it helps emphasize the usefulness of this feature in
any
>>>>> kind of "reader" app. Perhaps, in addition to link
previews, we may also
>>>>> want to think about allowing users to highlight words and show
definitions
>>>>> (from Wiktionary?), pronunciations, translations, etc...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> p.s. I was able to get the Kindle app to crash by clicking a link
>>>>> inside one of the Wikipedia "previews" that wasn't
stripped out correctly.
>>>>> In other words, no app is safe from the edge cases of wikitext!
>>>>>
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