Our users also *really* want popovers (have a 1-star review on our current version in the US app store complaining we don't have link preview yet).
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Jon Katz jkatz@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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@wikimedia.org wrote:
+mobile-l
On 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, Translation
On 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: > > 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! > > > _______________________________________________ > reading-wmf mailing list > reading-wmf@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-wmf > >
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