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. If I can’t pull that off, though, I’ll have to share the current version again as a hack… I think it’s worth it. Take it from me, I’m biased.
Jun 17
2010
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 free (credit would be swell, where it’s due). I’ll be putting my free time into Instapaper Beyond and other more “legitimate” projects now (although I really would like to do a nice, high-contrast, Helvetica version…). In deference to Faruk Ateş, I’d like to clearly state that this is a hack, and you run a risk (albeit very minimal…
Posted in Blog, Code, Featured | 8 Comments » Tagged: antique, hacks, javascript, jquery, reader, safari, safari 5, typography, widont 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).
I set out on a search for an easy, all-purpose solution, but nothing worked as well as I wanted it to. So I did a little scavenging and put together a couple of functions that do the job pretty well…
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 safe first) is […]. If you don’t know how to do this from Terminal, you can just do it in Finder: go to your Applications folder and locate Safari, then right click on it and choose “Show Package Contents.” That will open a new window with the inne