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But reader mode is mostly bunch of heuristics with tons of ad-hoc special cases and hacks instead of relying documents to be well-structured. So in many ways it is the opposite of successful example.

https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/main/Readability...



Oh true. Which kind of demonstrates the penalty for abusing HTML so much that it’s no-longer semantically reliable.


How long can it be called abuse if it is how html has been used like almost entirety of its lifetime.




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