Aug 27
2011

Thanks to a pointer from Jeremy Lu, I’ve got the Antique Safari Reader hack running in Safari 5.1. I can’t begin to tell you how much I’d missed it since updating to Lion. I’ve updated the instructions page to include the Lion location of Reader.html.

The file is now located at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Reader.html. A quick…

Jun 21
2010

There was a nice mention of Antique today over at PimpMySafari​.com. Thanks, Scott! Despite having sworn off the Reader hacking, I’ve actually been continuing development, making tweaks and expanding functionality. My ultimate goal is still to find a way to override the stylesheet via a global page in an extension, turning it from a hack into something a little more legitimate…

Jun 17
2010

For a quick “how-to” on using the Antique (or any) Safari Reader hack, see the related article in the HowTo section.

This will be the last release of Antique, I think, barring a few minor fixes (follow @ttscoff for updates on this and other projects). You can download it here. The code is completely open source, if anyone wants to continue the project feel…

Jun 14
2010

While playing around with Antique, I decided I really wasn’t in love with the ampersands that were included in any of the fonts I was working with. Normally, I’d just run everything through Typogrify and get some handy CSS classes to work with. Working in Safari’s Reader, though, I only had access to Javascript (and jQuery, now).

Jun 13
2010

There is a new version of Antique available! Check out version 1.6!

Version 1.5 1.6 of Antique (originally posted here) is officially available for download. Here’s what’s new!

If you want to try out the style, download it here and open the archive. Inside you’ll find a file called Reader.html. The file you’re going to replace (back it up somewhere…