Possible Developer Project: Font Size Control Similar to Defunct Google gwt Mobilizer

SteveEisenberg · 04-23-2016, 06:27 PM

Until about four months ago, I was a fairly heavy user of http://www.readingthenet.com/, an interface that created simplified, fast loading, large font versions of text-heavy web sites, optimized for the WiFi/3G browser found in early Kindle models. I got the feeling that not a whole lot of people were as satisfied with it as I was (maybe no one!), but I liked it, mostly for international news access, but also for weather.

About four months ago Google took down the http://www.google.com/gwt/x site which www.readingthenet.com called, wrecking the latter. As I mentioned in a February Links Every Kindle Owner Should Have post, there are several remaining mobilizers (web pages simplifying other sites), but there is no obvious-to-me way to make them default to a desired font size. While you can bring up a page, and then change the font size, this takes so long as to make the process impractical except in a dire emergency. What is needed is something that, given the right kind of web site, keeps the highly simplified, text-only, large font, format the same every time you go to the bookmark, and maintains it as you follow links.

Can anyone say whether it should be possible to build a successor to www.readingthenet.com, or suggest another way to achieve similar results? If easy, perhaps someone here would like to take a stab at it. If difficult, I guess I am out of luck. If the difficulty is in-between, who knows, maybe I could do it with some hints as to where to go and what to learn.

I should mention that I'm a (in my mind, anyway) competent IBM COBOL batch and VB.NET Windows forms developer without web expertise. Of course, I don't expect people here to teach me everything that I've missed professionally over the last twenty years :-)

Thanks for all ideas.

knc1 · 04-23-2016, 08:39 PM

I see you have a K3 listed in your info box.
Now if you had a K5 (Kindle Touch) - - -
We have IBM 360-Cobol for the K5.

04-23-2016, 06:27 PM	#1
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,399 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	Possible Developer Project: Font Size Control Similar to Defunct Google gwt Mobilizer Until about four months ago, I was a fairly heavy user of http://www.readingthenet.com/, an interface that created simplified, fast loading, large font versions of text-heavy web sites, optimized for the WiFi/3G browser found in early Kindle models. I got the feeling that not a whole lot of people were as satisfied with it as I was (maybe no one!), but I liked it, mostly for international news access, but also for weather. About four months ago Google took down the http://www.google.com/gwt/x site which www.readingthenet.com called, wrecking the latter. As I mentioned in a February Links Every Kindle Owner Should Have post, there are several remaining mobilizers (web pages simplifying other sites), but there is no obvious-to-me way to make them default to a desired font size. While you can bring up a page, and then change the font size, this takes so long as to make the process impractical except in a dire emergency. What is needed is something that, given the right kind of web site, keeps the highly simplified, text-only, large font, format the same every time you go to the bookmark, and maintains it as you follow links. Can anyone say whether it should be possible to build a successor to www.readingthenet.com, or suggest another way to achieve similar results? If easy, perhaps someone here would like to take a stab at it. If difficult, I guess I am out of luck. If the difficulty is in-between, who knows, maybe I could do it with some hints as to where to go and what to learn. I should mention that I'm a (in my mind, anyway) competent IBM COBOL batch and VB.NET Windows forms developer without web expertise. Of course, I don't expect people here to teach me everything that I've missed professionally over the last twenty years :-) Thanks for all ideas.

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04-23-2016, 08:39 PM	#2
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	I see you have a K3 listed in your info box. Now if you had a K5 (Kindle Touch) - - - We have IBM 360-Cobol for the K5.

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