Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) offers a great enhancement to my experience of web-based info. And (even at v. 0.4) to
printability of pages (esp. of blogs and blog systems whose print systems are often ugly and wasteful of ink and paper).
However, when I want to print and share with someone else there is the following drawback: the author, original web site, etc. are almost always not printed.
Does this worry you? as authors? as readers?
As it is, I have to hand-write the URL and author on a printed copy.
Maybe this is just an issue for Readability to fix in future versions. But another issue is: do not the designers of blogs and sites need to be more aware of services like Readability and take sensible steps (like including date, author, original url, etc) to be sure ownership is displayed in the body of their articles/posts? I sure would if i were designing blog for myself.
Surely Readability is just the first of what will likely be scraping/reformatting apps, especially when annoying bandwidth-sucking, ink-draining ads dominate so heavily the printed as well as screen versions of sites. Your ideas?
However, when I want to print and share with someone else there is the following drawback: the author, original web site, etc. are almost always not printed.
Does this worry you? as authors? as readers?
As it is, I have to hand-write the URL and author on a printed copy.
Maybe this is just an issue for Readability to fix in future versions. But another issue is: do not the designers of blogs and sites need to be more aware of services like Readability and take sensible steps (like including date, author, original url, etc) to be sure ownership is displayed in the body of their articles/posts? I sure would if i were designing blog for myself.
Surely Readability is just the first of what will likely be scraping/reformatting apps, especially when annoying bandwidth-sucking, ink-draining ads dominate so heavily the printed as well as screen versions of sites. Your ideas?