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…
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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…
Dec 31
2009
I made a couple of minor changes to the Clippable bookmarklet, mostly in the way it handles SyntaxHighlighter code blocks. The SyntaxHighlighter plugin is used (too) often to format and color code source snippets in websites. The result when clipping a page is that the code you get still has line numbers, but no option to view the raw source without going back to the web page. Then you end up manually editing out the line numbers if you want to copy and paste the code, which can be a pain in most cases.
Since the point of Clippable was to deal better with things like code blocks (especially for saving snippets to Evernote), it
Nov 02
2009
So my modification of the Readability bookmarklet kind of snuck out before it was ready, but it’s my own fault. Now I’m scrambling a little to make it more presentable and less of a straight-up hack of the excellent original. I wanted to make a few things clear about my goals and purpose on this one.
First the entire project was really a subset of my attempt at a better Evernote clipper for Snow Leopard. One which allowed me to preserve code formatting and automatically remove comments and ads from the post, in a smarter fashion than the current Safari clipper does…
