These days, most online content is free, supported by advertisements. The problem with many pages, though, is that these ads, navigation supports, and other clutter can make reading the actual content difficult. I could imagine that, for someone sitting down at a web browser for the first time, this clutter could be downright overwhelming.
The folks at arc90 are developing a potential solution to this problem–a simple bookmarklet called Readability. Readability removes the extra stuff on a web page and lets you focus on what you need to read. This short video shows how it works.
I’ve experimented with Readability a bit and have found that it works best when you’re looking at a web page with a single article–in other words, a news story on CNN, but not the CNN home page.
(Readability, via Daring Fireball)
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