Reviews for Bionic Reader
Bionic Reader by Rain Jr.
Review by Pfhoenix
Rated 5 out of 5
by Pfhoenix, 2 years agoHaving some trouble with the extension inverting the bold, resulting in the end of the words being emphasized. Not sure if this is a known behavior with a workaround/inbuilt fix, but aside from that seems a good extension.
Follow on edit: Figured it out. If you adjust weights appropriately and the strength, it will de-emphasize emphasized content in pages, while also not effectively emphasizing other content due to the limits it has been provided.
Surprise, the 'issue' was once again the user, not the product.
Follow on edit: Figured it out. If you adjust weights appropriately and the strength, it will de-emphasize emphasized content in pages, while also not effectively emphasizing other content due to the limits it has been provided.
Surprise, the 'issue' was once again the user, not the product.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi,
I know about the issue you mentioned. However, it is really hard to fix it because many fonts do not use standard strength for their characters. Furthermore, detecting a text that is already emphasized (with custom strength/bold font) may be costly (most of the time, we need to use "getComputedStyle()" in Javascript, which is slow and not efficient).
I'm glad you found the workaround for the issue! I put a lot of effort to build that Options GUI, but not so many people care about it :D!
I know about the issue you mentioned. However, it is really hard to fix it because many fonts do not use standard strength for their characters. Furthermore, detecting a text that is already emphasized (with custom strength/bold font) may be costly (most of the time, we need to use "getComputedStyle()" in Javascript, which is slow and not efficient).
I'm glad you found the workaround for the issue! I put a lot of effort to build that Options GUI, but not so many people care about it :D!