Document reader mode from author's perspective
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Proposal
Reader mode (aka reader view) may be confusing for document authors. It uses various heuristics to extract content from the page, but those heuristics are not documented. I think that MDN should document how reader mode works, and what an author can do if their page is displayed incorrectly in reader mode.
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Reader mode is widely supported by browsers.
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Research direction
Begin by identifying the MDN content area for author-facing guidance and researching the reader-mode heuristics used by supported browsers. Done means a documented explanation of how reader mode extracts content plus actionable guidance for authors whose pages are misrepresented; the issue provides no named files or tests.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100