the-happy-hippo/sprits-it

sprits-it! — Awesome Speed-Reading

sprits-it's Issues

self hosted

Can you provide some install instruction on what to do, if you want to host sprits-it on your private webspace?

Arabic words are not displayed properly

It appears that handling of Arabic words is much more complex than that implemented in #6 for Hebrew, since in Arabic it is not possible to simply cut a word into parts – the adjacent letters must be properly 'glued' together to look valid in Arabic.

Prevent DoS for large amounts of input content

As stated in commit a3a037f:

Since we retrieve reading content as an input from the end user, need to add some kind of input size limiting to not accidentally run into DoS. In particular, big ePub archives can easily kill all currently running sessions.

Doesn’t work

Hey, the application would be pretty cool, but not even the demo text works, says "Article Extraction failed"

Document where the main algorithm is implemented and how it works

I've been recently been working on a similar project for emacs, https://github.com/ian-kelling/spray.

Based on a quick count, similar programs are implemented in 6 languages, 9 platforms and 11+ projects. Every one has a similar algorithm to choose a word, an accent character and an interval to display it. How to do that best is quite important. However, how each project does it is generally buried in unrelated code, and mostly undocumented. It is prohibitively time consuming to figure out the algorithm and differences between them for each project. This sucks. Users would like to know so they can pick one. Developers would like to know so they can get ideas and spread improvements among different projects.

A few minutes of work from each project's maintainer can fix this. Please document which file(s) and function(s) implement the main algorithm, and preferably how it works in plain english or pseudocode. An example for the my own project is at: https://github.com/ian-kelling/spray#algorithm-details.

ePub handling

Word highlighting

Need to highlight words being read in the text so the reader can easily see the context and her location in the entire text. Ideally with an option to navigate to any other word in the text, e.g., with a mouse click.

PDF text extraction

README: add release descriptions

Block unsupported browsers (e.g., IE8)

Don't even try to display any content on IE8!

Incorrect RTL language display (e.g., Hebrew)

• The words in the 'redicle' are totally garbled;
• The text in the text preview aligned left instead of right.

Example: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4513250,00.html

README: add installation instructions

Play/rewind controls shouldn't be links

Currently play/rewind buttons are made with <a> links which has some unwanted side effects at least on mobile Safari (e.g, long press and hold pops context menu prompting to save a bookmark, etc.)

Add reading title to page title

For example, "Sprits It! -- Alice in Wonderland"