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@wikimedia.org> wrote:_______________________________________________+mobile-lOn Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:Okay to move this to mobile-l?
On Friday, June 5, 2015, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle@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@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, TranslationOn Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant@wikimedia.org> wrote:_______________________________________________I was using the Kindle app on the plane today, and I noticed a few interesting things, including this: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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