How to put the Amazon Kindle Web Browser into Article Mode

Question

How do you put the Amazon Kindle web browser into Article Mode via HTML or Javascript?

Editor's note: Some pages are not automatically detected as "articles" by the Kindle 3 browser, and give an error message when trying to go into Article mode. What does the Article mode use to determine what portion of the page to display?

Answer 1

Is this related at all to Readability?

http://lifehacker.com/5163401/readability-bookmarklet-quick+formats-pages-for-smoother-text

Actual JavaScript code for Readability, which is heuristic based:

// Study all the paragraphs and find the chunk that has the most <p>'s and keep it:

This also appears to be related to Safari 5's Reader mode. Here is what is required for Safari Reader:

This definitely needs more investigating, but so far, these appear to be the most important factors for Safari’s Reader functionality to kick in:

• Use the right markup, i.e. make sure the most important content is wrapped inside a container element. Whether you use <article>, <div> or even <span> doesn’t seem to matter — as long as it’s not <p>.
• The content needs to be long enough. Use enough words, use enough paragraphs, use enough punctuation. Every paragraph should have at least 100 characters.
• Reader doesn’t work for local documents.

Answer 2

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/simple-tip-turns-kindle-into-ultimate-news-reader/ - The "f" key feature outlined above or some other feature? Not quite sure what article mode means.