I get an issue when trying to load squirt on a HTTPS site. For example: https://medium.com. Would it be possible to run it over ssl as well?

Was browsing:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt

Some pages squirt simply does nothing -eg: https://d4l3.com/dreams

When that happens, at least throw an error or something so I know that you tried and just can't do that page. The first 3 pages I tried didn't work and I got no feedback and I wondered if I had installed it properly.

Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function nr_loader.min.js:54
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined loader.js?date=10162013:14
372
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null squirt.js:10
105
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null

(Mac, Chrome)

If I select some words then run squirt on them, and then select different words and try run squirt on THAT, it doesn't work? It just shows as:

This is a really awesome, but I have some requests.

Clicking outside of the panel is the only way to close the overlay. It would be good if it could also be closed by pressing the escape button or something similar.

It would be awesome to be able to control the reader with the keyboard, as it does not require moving your eyes.

• space bar - pause / un-pause
• up / right - faster
• down / left - slower

Pocket is my preferred way to tag and later read articles on the web. It would be perfect to read those articles using Squirt, however when one tries to do so one is instead read a message about needing to enable javascript. :)

Squirt should just be able to look for div.reader_content element (or possibly better: div.text_body) and go from there. This should hopefully be an easy tweak. :)

Many thanks for Squirt, it's friggin awesome.

<3 Paul

Trying to read, say A Tale of Two Cities, one may want to skip to a certain chapter, for example http://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-h/98-h.htm#link2H_4_0016. However, squirt starts at the top of the page.

The code inside the following script tag:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">var id2 = '0.3106187978178174';</script>

Was read to me as normal text by Squirt.

< li > tags seem to be problematic when using the feature of only reading part of the page (i.e. highlighting text on the page). The following (spaces in li tag are intentional here):

< li>"This is the first item."< /li>
< li>"Followed by the second one."< /li>

... causes the following display:

item.
Followed

... in other words, "Followed" is displayed at the same time as "item" and it shows up underneath it. As an example, use the site shown in the squirt.io bookmarklet youtube video tutorial http://zenhabits.net and highlight the bullet-point list.

The bookmarklet seems to default to 400WPM. It would be good if the default speed were customisable depending on the bookmarklet saved.

It would also be nice to have a favicon associated with the bookmarklet. Looks possible, but I haven't tried before.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/521040/how-to-have-favicon-icon-set-when-bookmarklet-dragged-to-toolbar

When clicking play with the speed selection open, the speed selection should close. Related, if it's playing, and you click the current speed again (to close) it's much much faster than the speed should be (double?)

If I select a text and within the text there are three dots, the last word squirt will show will be the word immediately before the last one. Example:

But what the heck is GitHub... and why are developers so excited about it?

If I select this sentence and click the bookmarklet the last word I will see will be "is" and then the pane will just stay empty and nothing will happen.

How Can I add squirt to my wordpress website, thanks!

One of swedens largest news-websites.

here is a sample url
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/internationella-aklagarmyndigheten-inleder-forundersokning-om-mord-pa-horner/

Here are the errors
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'match' of undefined squirt.js:465
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'offsetLeft' of undefined squirt.js:285

browser: latest version of chrome, no plugins.

Not sure how feasible this is. The bookmarklet does not function on HTTPS sites currently (in Chrome). This is due to Chrome's security policy of blocking insecure content. I believe a fix would be serving Squirt stuff over HTTPS?

Currently for some web articles, it doesn't successfully extract the text unfortunately. In Chrome, even using plugins like Evernote's Clearly plugin successfully extracts the text. However, when I select the text and click on Squirt bookmarklet it unfortunately doesn't work.

Hi! Please could you choose a copyright license for Squirt? At the moment it's "closed source" because no license is chosen, would be awesome to have this under e.g. BSD license. Thanks!

The following HTML:

declined to comment.<br><br>Further inquiries

... results in comment.Further to be shown as one word.

For those of us that don't want to show a bookmark bar, could this be supported in a Chrome Extension? Either a toolbar button or option in the context menu?

Such as https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spread-speed-reading-exte/hpnjoanfahcolkdgnfecmncnlfklnllk?hl=en

I was reading this article on TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/11/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-accidentally-starts-a-bitcoin-donation-campaign-for-wikipedia/

It appears that Squirt can't handle well with the paragraph break.

can you please hyphenation for the most important languages? In particular long words are not so easy to grasp.

• Space to pause/play like in most video players.
• Left arrow key to go one word back, right arrow key to go one word forward.

How to reproduce.
Go to website,
Click 450, click 950, now shows css code that doesn't show up on website.

Add an option to show 3, 5, 7 or 9 words at the time and to adjust the speed accordingly.

It would be good if there were the option to pause or show down for a second or so between paragraphs. Right now it just zooms steadily through, while the content's context has changed, it can be slightly confusing...

https://github.com/cameron/squirt/search?q=keen

What is keen?

I don't know, but I don't like it: https://keen.io/

Cheers,

Hi there, I was just playing with squirt. It's fun, thanks for making it.

I noticed that long words are displayed for about the same time as short words. When they're long enough, I don't have enough time to read them. I think it's that I don't have enough time to scan my eyes over them.

The example I noticed was "hyperproductive"

If there were a way to detect when code examples were being shown, a huge improvement would be to show the code example in its entirety and pause, allowing the user to continue reading after digesting the code example. Words are easy to garner meaning from in a flash, but code obviously requires symbols and has a lot more meaning packed into each word/line. This would make going through technical documentation UNBELIEVABLE.

For example: http://habrahabr.ru/company/yandex/blog/215535/ (it is on Russsian)

Tested in Chrome, works fine. In FF, select text, then click bookmarklet. Instead of reading just selected text, reads the whole page.

See this article for a test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Multiple spaces are ignored

An issue in right to left languages like persian or arabic:
Word characters should not be separately in some cases...

Given the WPM and the article/selection's word count it should be fairly simple to display how long it will take to read the article. This could go in the WPM section. To keep the design minimal something like "4m" or "2m 23s" could be used.

Tested on this article
http://www.boston.com/news/source/2014/03/explosion_reported_in_harlem.html

One of the main pains in reading academic papers is that they are all in PDF. I have a lot of readings to do for a graduate course I'm taking, and being able to squirt through all of them via PDF would be a bliss...

yes, I can copy / paste into pastebin or something, but if there was a way to do it without a workaround it would have been awesome

Perhaps this is already extant, but simply doesn't work for me. Every time I hit the bookmarklet, it's set back to 400WPM — even though it should remember that I want it at 950.

Similar to #18, add an indicator of what percentage of the article there is still left.

I think this project should have a master branch with only the squirt source code. Therefore, people can work better while implement other functions such as browser plugins and improvements to the code.

Didn´t work in the https://medium.com/teaching-learning/806390db18e8

Gona try other pages

It will be better if you will be add parametr to set defeault speed at bookmark-script, because everytime switch from 400 to 500 is terrible =(

Initialisms, when separated by "." are threaded as separate words, which make them harder to understand (e.g.: e.g. becomes e. g. ;-) ).
Another use case are Initialisms that are not separated with dots but written all uppercase (e.g.: BTW ). Those are also harder to understand as they represent multiple words and you have to transcode them first.

Proposal: identify both patterns, display them as a single word, but increase the delay before the next word shows up.

Please add an option to change the font type. Right now we are able to use only one type of font and this is the main thing we see on the screen. Better font means better comprehension of the text.

It would be awesome to choose from some selected fonts and additional option to paste the url to the font file from google font repository or any other place.

I've replicated this bug on many different sites and sources now. This bug replicates on chrome, safari, and firefox.

Anytime an ellipsis ,i.e. "..." appears in the text, the squirt.io reader halts. (never showing the word immediately before the ellipsis)

e.g. at the top of this blog:
http://andrewgelman.com/2014/03/11/stop-publishing-journals/

I wonder if that's possible at all. Either with the whole document or with text selection only.

The table on this web page
www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

Actually stop squirt dead in its tracks.

After the table's data ends, squirt just displays nothing for several minutes.

FireFox 27
Windows 7 x86_64
Addons: Ad-block Plus, Https everywhere, dns sec

Visually there's not enough distinction between 5,000 and 6,000 or between January 3 & January 8 (and context doesn't help, like it does with words). Perhaps half-speed for any number blocks would help.