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0 pointsparkovski5y ago0 comments

I believe it is a heuristic that looks at text length, element type and class name.

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Yup! It looks for paragraphs that are at least 140 characters long. I wrote about it a bit more here: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics

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0 pointsparkovski5y ago0 comments

I believe it is a heuristic that looks at text length, element type and class name.

Yup! It looks for paragraphs that are at least 140 characters long. I wrote about it a bit more here: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics

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