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| author | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-07-22 20:37:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-07-22 20:37:41 +0000 |
| commit | 34b663c6e75a2c360de154418dafb8f616b546a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 300f7b5a2344925832d13f634abe16470ce668ae /BACKLOG.md | |
| parent | ee019c91f66b6ba35b7295ea01220c6c13819b1c (diff) | |
Fix extraction regression on kottke; add Older view, mark-read-from-here
- ReaderExtractor: the un-hide-before-extracting fix (for soft paywalls
like West Hawaii Today) was unconditional -- it also un-hid normal,
legitimately-collapsed chrome (kottke's footer/membership notice), which
Readability then folded into the result alongside the real article.
Reported live with a screenshot showing the extracted content wrapped in
site footer boilerplate. Now tries the normal (hidden-respecting) pass
first and only falls back to the un-hide pass if that came back thin
(<500 chars), keeping whichever pass actually found more text. Verified
live: the same kottke article now stays clean and stable (no delayed
switch to the footer version).
- New Unread/Older split: the default Unread view is now clamped to the
last 72 hours (RECENT_WINDOW_MS); the rest of the unread backlog moved
to a new "Older" view (new FeedListScreen row, ArticleDao.observeUnread
now takes a cutoff, observeOlderUnread/observeUnreadCount/
observeOlderUnreadCount added). Undated articles are kept in the main
Unread view rather than silently dropped from both. Verified live: 150
recent / 1172 older, summing to the prior combined total.
- "Mark read from here": long-press an article row to mark it and
everything older in that same filtered list as read in one batch
(re-added ArticleDao.markReadBatch, this time as an explicit,
confirmed action -- not the implicit on-scroll version that was
reverted earlier). Verified live: confirmed a 147-article batch: the
tapped article and older were marked read, newer ones above it were not.
- BACKLOG.md: added a YouTube-embeds note (JS is off in the reader
WebView, so embeds currently show broken -- rough shape is a tap-to-play
thumbnail rather than turning JS on for third-party content).
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@@ -34,3 +34,16 @@ relying on manual tagging carried over from another tool. - Out of scope for now: any automated "find where the author moved" logic — that's a manual research task when a feed's actually declared dead, not something to build detection for. + +## YouTube embeds + +**Motivation:** the reader's WebView runs with JavaScript off (feed/extracted +content never needs it, and it keeps articles from running arbitrary +scripts) — so a YouTube iframe embedded in an article currently just shows +as a broken/blank box instead of a playable video or thumbnail. + +**Rough shape (not yet built):** detect a YouTube iframe/embed URL in the +extracted or feed-provided HTML and swap it for a tap-to-play thumbnail +(image + play button) that opens the video in the YouTube app/browser on +tap, rather than trying to make the embed actually play inline (which would +mean turning JS back on for untrusted third-party content). |
