Textcelerator for Sites
Are you sick of getting comments based only on your first paragraph? Do you write about things that are important, which people really ought to read to the end? Textcelerator for Sites can help. You put a button on your site, like this one:
Speed-reading holds readers' attention better than regular reading. It encourages busy people to favor your site over others. And it's a valuable courtesy; you signal to your readers that you respect their time. It's also a cool novelty; by being an early adopter, you can draw attention to your site.
Adding Textcelerator to your site is easy. First pick an icon:
Choose how you want Textcelerator to load:
- Load in the background after the rest of the page is ready, or
- Start loading when the Speed Read This button is first clicked or an API function is called
Then add this code to your page, at the place where you want the Textcelerator button to appear:
<!-- Textcelerator for Sites See https://www.textcelerator.com/documentation/embed -->
<script type="text/javascript">
// Load Textcelerator Javascript asynchronously after the page is ready.
// Queue up any Textcelerator API calls made before then.
(function() {
function loadScript(name) {
var txl = document.createElement("script");
txl.type = "text/javascript"; txl.async = true; txl.src = name;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(txl, s);
}
loadScript("https://www.textcelerator.com/loadConfig");
loadScript("https://static.textcelerator.com/static/textcelerator-embed.js");
window.Textcelerator_pending = [];
window.Textcelerator = function() { window.Textcelerator_pending.push(arguments) }
})();</script>
<img src="https://static.textcelerator.com/static/icons/button_96x24.png"
onclick="javascript:Textcelerator('toggleWindow')"
class="TextceleratorButton"
style="cursor:pointer"
alt="Speed Read This">
Textcelerator for Sites is free to use on most public sites, and will remain free forever. See the license agreement for details. It will display a link to our browser plugin when it's open, which adds speed-reading functionality to every site, and which is payware; this is how we pay for development and hosting. If a user has the browser plugin installed and visits a site with Textcelerator for Sites on it, they will talk to each other so that both the page's customizations and the user's configuration settings will apply correctly. If your site has very high traffic, please let us know when you are planning to roll it out, so we can prepare server capacity. (Textcelerator waits until the rest of the page is loaded before it starts loading, similar to Google Analytics, so a failure on our end won't break your page.)
Customization
That's all you need to do! You can also customize some aspects of Textcelerator by defining a variable textcelerator_config. For example,
<script>var textcelerator_config = {
position: "bottom right",
openAutomatically: true
};
</script>
The configurable settings are:
Start Positions
Textcelerator has some heuristics to find the start of the article, so that readers will start reading at the best place. However, if you have multiple Speed Read This buttons on a page, or if the heuristics don't select the best spot, you may wish to override the start position.
When calling the Textcelerator function with the 'toggleWindow' or 'show' commands, you can provide an extra argument containing the ID of an element which contains the text you to be the start position. If no such argument is given, Textcelerator will next look for an element with an ID of "textcelerator_startHere", ie <span id="textcelerator_startHere"></span>. If that's not found, it will use a collection of heuristics based on vertical position on the page, tag and class names.
API Functions
For more complex customization, Textcelerator offers an API. To call an API function, run call Textcelerator("funcName", args), where funcName is the name of the function. (It works this way so that you can call Textcelerator functions before the script has loaded, and the arguments will be saved to run later.)
Special Tags
Textcelerator adjusts its behavior in response to span tags with special class names that may appear in the document. These tags are: