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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open www.healthcare4kids.org -> announcements
2. click "readability" tool button
3. nothing appears :-(

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

rendered page

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

IE8 Vista ultimate

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. GO to http://www.todayonline.com/articles/306771.asp
2. Click on Readability toolbar button
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
"Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content."

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 3.0 on Mac OSX Tiger

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http://www.livemint.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx?artid=82A5F85E-1C7F-11DE-94CC
-000B5DABF613

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Limbaugh-My-Ratings
-are-Way-Way-Up-40846352.html

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit a site with an introduction like
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http://www.br-online.de/wissen/weltraum/weltraumschrott-weltraum-schrott-ID12017
09383383.xml
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http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2009/03/hinweise-auf-eisvulkane-un
d-wasserozean.html
2. Click on Readability Bookmarklet
3. See that the preface of the page is not there anymore

This issue is true for almost all pages with introductions that are bold.

From http://blog.arc90.com/2009/03/shhh_im_trying_to_read.php#comment-37821:
{{{
One question/suggestion: currently, your script looks for the section with
the most paragraph tags, and assumes that is the section to hang onto. That
works fine, but I can see some cases (particularly code-related posts which
may feature a lot of ul's or ol's) where perhaps that may not be entirely
accurate.

How about checking first to see if an article is posted in hAtom format? If
you can locate a div with the class '.hentry' you use that content,
otherwise you can go through and determine which area has the most paragraphs.

A real quick example of how this could work is at:
www.timkadlec.com/readable.js. You can see the changes starting at line 42.
While this wouldn't fix all the remaining 10%, it could certainly help to
close the gap a bit.

Either way, fantastic work on an incredibly useful tool!
}}}

Patch attached. Props Tim Kadlec ( http://www.timkadlec.com/ )

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to sparknotes.com
2. Open up a guide
3. Try to use readability

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Readability formated page;standard readability error message

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
IE8 on Windows xp

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. http://www.bmp.be/Auteurs/Dirk%20De%20Prins/Dirk%20De%20Prins.html
2. your script
3.

What is the expected output?
DIRK DE PRINS
    Boeken  
        Dirk De Prins (° 1952), gekend van het radioprogramma KOOK (Radio 2) en
hoofdredacteur van het maandblad Ambiance, is met 'Dirk de keukenPrins'
niet aan zijn culinair proefstuk toe. Velen kennen Dirk van het populaire
radioprogramma Bistro & Co … of als 'redder in nood' om je mislukt
kerstmenu toch nog via zijn gekende tips (die je trouwens ook in zijn
nieuwe boek terugvindt) op de radio tot een goed einde te brengen…
Dirk De Prins is kunsthistoricus van beroep en specialiseerde zich in de
iconografie van de Vlaamse kunst van de 16e en 17e eeuw. Hij is al meer dan
20 jaar journalist en is sinds 2000 hoofdredacteur van Ambiance, het
magazine over gastronomie, wijn en toerisme. Hij werkte mee aan het
programma Krokant (einde jaren '80) en specialiseerde zich in de culinaire
geschiedenis. Hij is o.a. auteur van het zeer succesvolle 'Bistro & Co
kookboek' (1994) het prestigieuze boek 'De Belgische Keuken' (samen met
Nest Mertens, auteur van 'Ciao, het beste uit Italië')

What do you see instead?
Untitled Document
Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content. If you feel
like it should have been able to, please let us know by submitting an issue.

What version of the product are you using?
Not mentioned

On what operating system?
Linux; openSuse 11

Please provide any additional information below.
Browser: Firefox 3.0.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/paradiselost/section3.rhtml
2. clicked the bookmarkelet
3. got an error message

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to "daringfireball.net"
2. Invoke readability

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Daring fireball in readability, what I see instead is a random entry from 
months ago in 
readability.
The same occurs with wordpress blogs.
BBC news site presents on usability links, no other data at all.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest version available - Mac OS 10.5

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People want the ability to easily refresh the original page.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Opening a pdf file, converted to html by google cache.
2. attempting to run readability bookmarklet.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I was hoping to see less whitespace, and just see the text in regular size
and paragraphing. Instead i recieved the "unable to parse this content"
message.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 3.0.7, latest readablity at current date(19/3/09), windows xp
professional sp3.

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this is less of a bug and more of an irritating lack of a feature. sorry if
i have wasted your time.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit http://is.gd/tCzR
2. Click the Readability bookmarklet
3. Only the intro text is isolated

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
[see above]

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8
Readibility bookmarklet [as of today's date]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Readability an article
2. Darken that page (using Lifehacker's Darken bookmarklet 
<http://tr.im/jkVT>)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The Readability buttons (refresh, print, etc) are now hidden. Their style is 
overridden by the Darken bookmarklet.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Google Chrome 2.0.172.6

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit any page that has multiple pages to it.
2. Click Readabiltiy - only page one is cleaned up.

Readability should try to find the link to the print view, probably by
seeking out <a >print ... </a> in the code. Regex is probably ideal here
b/c the text can vary "Printer Friendly" "Print" "Print View" The trick
here is to probably find <a> tags with the word "print" but probably no
more than 20 characters ("Printer Friendly" is the longest possible link I
can think of).

Also, this doesn't help for sites that use JS or some other way to launch
Print View (the majority don't).

I'd like to give friends an URL which already uses Readability so they
don't have to create a Readability bookmark for it and call the function
manually.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/who_is_barney_frank.html
2.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Text article.

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Trying to use Readability on a discussion board, 
e.g. powered by vBulletin.
2. Threads cannot be converted to a nice readable 
column of posts...

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Posts in a thread should be displayed using a clean 
layout but I see a page with a link to this very page.

What version of the product are you using? On what 
operating system?
Latest version on XP.

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I absolutely love your project and appreciate your 
work. Thanks !!! :-)

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Right now blue links are hardly readable.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Install Readability 
2.Use the readability bookmarklet on boingboing.net
3.The output of the page re-render contains only one Boing Boing post.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect to see all of the front-page posts. Instead, I only see one. It is
neither the first nor last post.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I don't know which version of Readibility I'm using; I d/led it at 2:00pm
CST, 04/17/2009. I'm using Firefox 3.0.8 on Mac OS 10.5.6.


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I did a search for boingboing and nothing popped up. 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Load site http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/ 
2. Click "Readability" bookmarklet
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The home page of this site is a collection of blog articles. I expected to
see all of the articles from the home page in order. What I see instead is
a single article from the middle of the set (but in the correct readability
format). 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest online version on Win XP /Firefox 3.0.8

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thanks for the tool; it's very useful!

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open http://www.managersonline.nl/vaknieuws/281/drie-omstandigheden-
frustreren-besluitvorming.html
2. Open Readability bookmarklet
3. Error parsing appears

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Readable page since this is a blog

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Internet Explorer 7

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ayVsI_55G8.0


Note the gap of space up top - b/c of <br/> tags.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section3.rhtml
2. click readability shortcut
3. fail :(

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
wanted to see the poem without the ads
ended up with an error and a link to this feedback form

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 3.0.5 mac OSX 10.5.6

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I like the tool and thought that it could be used for something other than
news (i.e. poetry sites)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. 
http://www.thetailsection.com/index.php/archives/2009/03/05/fan-theory-pull-leve
r-in-
case-of-paradox/ 
2. Open Reability


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Some blogs that I've found with more paragraphs in the comments than in the 
main article will 
cause Readability to display the comments instead of the main article.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.1
Mac OS 10.5.6 on Safari 4

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=DDF12EFA-18FE-70B2-A878D1086B3EE9DB

Style attribute still in place.

Would it be possible to use readability to hide everything except videos on 
websites?
Pretty much the same thing it does for text, but for video websites?

YouTube, for example, has an id="watch-this-vid" and it seems like the video is 
in that div.  

Thanks for the great work.

Renaming of page refresh link.

The font size jump between small and medium seems to be huge. It would be
great to have a font size in the middle of those two sizes.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Scroll down to footer.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2009/03/the-following-is-a-speech-i-gave-yest
erday-at-the-south-by-southwest-interactive-festival-in-austiniif-you-happened-t
o-being.html
2. Click Readability bookmarklet

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

First few paragraphs are cut out. This is because there are 2 div
containers - one housing the excerpt and another for the remaining content.

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


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Add a "Print" link.

thank you arc90 for this great bookmarklet!

but it'd be much more useful to me if there was an option to just remove 
font-size and font-family styling, instead of assigning new styles for them 
from a few options

this way, that I could read pages with the default font settings in my 
browser  

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. call bookmarklet on page http://www.lib.ru/STRUGACKIE/glubokii.txt

Right now "Reload is only in the footer."

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to news.google.com
2. go to text-only page
3. that's it

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

just got a could not parse error, nothing else

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

FF3/OSX 10.5 newsest version as of today (3/28)

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thanks!

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to www.heise.de
2. press readability bookmarklet

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected: readability-enhanced version of the web page
actual:  readability-enhanced version of the first advertisement on the web page

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Safari 4 beta on mac os x 10.5.6

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit http://www.cla.wayne.edu/polisci/kdk/general/sources/zinsser.htm
2. Click Readability
3. <font> tags survive, thus allowing old styles to persist.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected a readable view of the chapter, but instead got the message that 
the page couldn't be parsed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm on IE7.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Point your browser to http://www.lib.ru/RUFANT/SEMENOWA/wolkodaw4.txt
2. Click the bookmarklet invoking Readability.

Expected to see the book styled for reading.  Got a message saying it's not 
possible, and that I 
should leave an issue.

MacOS X 10.5.6 and Safari 4 beta.

I think Readability should style the page even if it can't format it.  That way 
you get some of the 
benefits, at least.  

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go into a guide such as
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/198265/50263
2. press the readability button
3. wont display at all...

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
i expected to see it with the desired readability settings, i just got an
error message saying it couldnt be displayed

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
i was using the one from this  link
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Windows Vista


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Not much to say, thats about all there is to it

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run the bookmarklet on this page: 
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/disciplinepunish/section1.html
2.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I get an error directing me here. I expected to see the text.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using Safari 4 and the newest webkit release.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click Readability bookmarklet on this page http://tinyurl.com/d95r4s
2. User comments appear after the article.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I don't really care to read the user comments most of the time. An option
to toggle them on or off would be nice, but not necessary since they can be
accessed by reloading the page.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
2. Invoke Readability

Readability only shows the title, the (site) logo image and the Readability
footer. The content isn't shown.

>What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 3.06, on Windows Vista.