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Re:Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading by eik3_de on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:19PM (#7386526)
Not sure. E.g. 'Kinderbetreuungsmöglichkeiten' means 'child care possibilities', that's three words in one. I suppose the brain just needs more time to parse that. But just counting characters to determine delay won't cut it, since 'Mississippi' is quite quick to parse.
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Re:Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading by X4 on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:05PM (#7388397)
What 'bout making it simpler and instead of colorizing nouns you colorize a horizontal gradient like http://www.beelinereader.com/
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Re:Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading by robertjwebb on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:12PM (#7386874)
Couldn't you split compound words so the components appear in sequence? e.g.

Kinder- -betreuungs- -möglichkeiten

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Re:Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading by dimon on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:19PM (#7388473)
One could, but most likely one would need a proper morphological analysis[2] to make it work correctly for the endless possibilities to combine words in German. Pretty hard to implement in the browser, but maybe an 80:20 like approach using a good dictionary could help for common terms in combination with slowdown on terms it doesn't know how to split.

[1] for example, one could use wiktionary data and try to extract how to properly separate common terms: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schifffahrt

Edit: [2] German demo of how that usually looks http://www.tagh.de/demo.php (not affiliated)

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Re:Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading by ntaso on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:42PM (#7386680)
Then maybe colorize nouns in a compound noun word instead of syllables ?
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