Comments on: Reading Blinds — a YUI-powered Reading Tool

By: David Chu

David Chu — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:34:25 +0000

I am using Vimperator, an add-in for Firefox. To pass keys from Vimperator, I need to enable its “PASS THROUGH” mode. Esc key is for quitting the mode. Therefore, Esc key is not the option.

Actually, just refreshing the web page will remove the injected scripts reading blinds codes.

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:49:10 +0000

On a Mac try pressing ctrl-alt-apple-8 and the screen colours invert making reading much easier on the eyes.

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阅读大量长篇么？让它保护你的眼睛吧-[Reading Blinds] - 山歌好比春江水 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:13:56 +0000

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阅读大量长篇么？让它保护你的眼睛吧-[Reading Blinds] - GENMICHA | 趣站酷软 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:01:04 +0000

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By: Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Going blinds

Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Going blinds — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:01:41 +0000

[...] If you’ve ever had trouble concentrating on a piece of text in a vast sea of white space, try closing the blinds, using some awesome YUI magic. Chris Heilmann goes into meticulously gory detail in the linked [...]

By: NICCAI

NICCAI — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:01:22 +0000

Very nice. Thanks for this. Also, changing the opacity using the keyboard would be handy.

By: Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:58:48 +0000

@manoy the easiest is to change the code for showing and hiding the blinds to ESC instead of b. The change is:

var keyspy = new YAHOO.util.KeyListener( document, { keys:27 }, { fn:peekaboo } );

By: Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:28:22 +0000

Manoj, good catch! This is really annoying. Tricky though. I guess I can turn off the keyboard detect while you are in a form field.

By: Manoj

Manoj — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:33:16 +0000

That just solved one of my problem. Thanks!
I prefer to differ from “SeanBlader” because its not just about big screen size. I really feel the pain in my eyes when I read a lot of webpages in their white background. I just used this for a while and I can see a huge difference.
One small suggestion, I think the blinds should get disabled when you’re in a text area, I just experienced it going on and off when I typed this comment ;)

By: SeanBlader

SeanBlader — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:41:52 +0000

Christian, most people with those big display’s don’t full screen the browser. Not only does it make websites way too wide, it can also make sites with relative width’s end up being wide enough to make it challenging to scan from one line to the next, hence why newspapers have very narrow columns. Typical sites are build around 1024 pixels wide, so if you set your browser at a more realistic width, and then make your desktop a darker color you’d be golden. But anyway, nice job on the bookmarklet, those are always very cool to see.