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Google is working on a Chrome reading mode

February 25, 2015 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

I just enabled this on my mobile and holy crap is it awesome. I haven't given it a shot on my desktop yet but if it's anything like it was on my phone it offers a nice and clean reading experience similar to Readability or Evernote's Clearly.

Originally shared by +François Beaufort

 

The DOM Distiller is an exciting open-source project created by the chromium team whose goal is to provide a better reading experience by distilling the content of the page. Yes, we're talking about Reader mode here: a mobile-friendly viewing mode for Chrome mobile but not only.

If you're on Mobile, you can already open Chrome on your mobile device, turn on the Reader Mode flag at chrome://flags#enable-reader-mode-toolbar-icon, relaunch and tap on the "Reader mode" icon in the toolbar to try it out.

If you're on desktop, playing with it is as easy as running chrome with the –enable-dom-distiller switch. Once it's done, you'll notice a new "Distill page" menu item.

For info, the internal debug page is chrome://dom-distiller. And since you're still there, open your JS console and give a try to some themes with useTheme('sepia') or useTheme('dark').

Source: https://github.com/chromium/dom-distiller

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Filed Under: Google+ Posts Tagged With: enable-reader-mode-toolbar-icon

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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