You would use? Seems "simple": crawl webpages, remove html tags from source, wrap blocks of newlines around <p>s, style accordingly (good, readable font and generous white spacing).
Depending on the execution, this could be characterized as stealing other people's content, but anyway, are the above mentioned "features" what you want?
It was just a thought - I find myself using Readability a lot and imagine there might be some interesting things that could be done with it (e.g. better support for things like iPads).
How one can use Readability for the cluttered site like Digg, if the latter practically stops low powered PCs at the very first stage, - downloading!!!
Nope, it's not that simple: The Unformatted Web you propose is simply too dull and boring! That's why the MiniRank Formula specifically degrades such TEXT-ONLY pages!
http://mini-www.com/blog/mini_competitors/
It's a simple idea and simple to do. Other than the person I was replying to, I made no assumptions if you or anyone else would like.
I really don't want to be dragged into this discussion with you, we have opposite personalities and I don't want to talk about the MiniRank Formula TEXT-ONLY whatever. Thank you for understanding :)
inerte, your "crawl webpages, remove html tags from source, wrap blocks of newlines" means STEALING other people's content, while Mini-WWW's way does not! It only points to EXISTING simple pages! And yes, I do want such pages. To be able to read them effortlessly.
If he re-tools this to some kind of sever-side Readability, a good chunk of people who can't use bookmarklets will jump on board.