(removing internal list, we don't need it)
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Corey Floyd cfloyd@wikimedia.org wrote:
@Jon you also 3-finger click to get that popover - or if you have a fancy new force touch track pad you can just push really hard.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Brian Gerstle bgerstle@wikimedia.org wrote:
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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> reading-wmf mailing list >> reading-wmf@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-wmf >> >> > > > -- > EN Wikipedia user page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle > IRC: bgerstle >
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