.03 release of The Economist reader!
Much improved! http://elzr.com/reader It’s really getting fun now! Now you can really read the whole magazine in a single page! Plus: columns, much better design (section separators!), and… flags!
It’s still a very early release (the columning in particular will be much improved soon) so please be gentle and let me know what you think of all the changes. What do you like? What’s helpful? What would you like to see?
Note that there are some weird bugs in Safari, to be fixed later. And all bets are off on what will happen in IE, I don’t have a machine to try it in for the moment.
See the project’s history at http://elzr.com/posts/reader-economist
The page is pretty heavy, ~250k, but it still loads up in in seconds. It’s still much less than The Economist’s current front page, which overloaded as it is with flash ads, weighs a whopping 4MB!
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oye… le pico a un artĂculo y se empieza a poner ahĂ abajito y luego luego me manda al artĂculo normal
That’s crazy talk Chepe. :)
You’re on Firefox, right? I’ve no idea what that could be. Try refreshing the site a few times first.Do you get any messages on the Error Console when you visit the website? (Tools -> Error Console). Try clearing it and then visit the Reader.
Mmm… sĂ estoy en firefox e hice eso que me dijiste y me sigue pasando.. quien sabee q pasa
my favorite!
Its actually the most readable online version of a publication I’ve read ever.
superb! two thumbs up.
Thanks so much for your kind comments jaimonkey! It really means a lot to me and motivates me, coming from such a news-literate person like you.
Alejandra Parra: I think I know what was happening for you! Just give the page a while more to fully load and only then start clicking on anything, everything should work alright now :)
it now redirects to the corresponding page on the economist’s site when you try to load an article, fyi
brother, I let it fully load and keep having the same problem
seems like now rnd is having it too
rnd, Alendandra Parra: I’ve tweaked the app and think you will no longer experience this problem. Can you try it again and tell me if it works now? Thanks!
This week’s edition of The Economist now available!
It’s working! yay!
maybe I’ll start reading it more often