A little while ago I wrote about a handy web app called Readability, which reformats the often overwhelming mashup that is the web into a classy, easy-on-the-eyes newspaper-like column for reading. It turns out Readability works great on the iPhone too! Take this Ars Technica article for example: And turn it into this with Readability:
During my limited tenancy as a web designer, there were a couple constant annoyances that were like thorns on my side: Figuring out HTML / RGB color codes when developing and styling pages. Finding out the proper sizes to scale images to, depending on the nature and content of the page.
People run toward a U.S. helicopter as it makes a water drop near a country club used as a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, via Haiti six days later – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Web application Readability turns a website you’re reading from this: Into this: