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[LimitProof]

I've posted this on the first page of the suggestions thread - For those who use Firefox & have installed the GreaseMonkey extension, I've also written a script that will change the forums to be variable width. This is for those users who don't want to change their resolution.

Excellent. I salute and thank you. Installed!

This post has been edited by Glark: Nov 8, 2007 @ 1:50 pm.

[SP8472]

In other Greasemonkey news, my user script (link removed) to read recaps as one long page has been updated today to work with the new-style page links. I think it works with the current site layout, but please PM me about any further issues.

This post has been edited by SP8472: Jun 14, 2008 @ 6:09 am.

[SP8472]

Updated again, some more. Everyone who had problems with 0.6 through 0.8, please give version 0.9 a spin.

[LimitProof]

I just updated my Variable Width script to accommodate the latest re-design. I've also added new scripts to simplify the layout on the homepage & recap pages.

TWoP Facelift Script: Preview 1, Preview 2

It's not shown in the previews, but I've also changed the background of the drop-downs to the light grey so that it isn't a glaring field of yellow when choosing shows/forums. If people really miss the old drop-downs, I can try to script something so they replace the new format.

Variable Width: Preview.

UPDATE 4/10/2008: Now that the forum has been reverted to the old design, I've re-published the old script for variable width forums. If you've installed the new variable width script (from 4/9/2008) - please re-download the "new" version.

If the script still isn't working, go to Tools -> Greasemonkey -> Manage User Scripts. Find all instances of "Table Width Changer" and click Uninstall. Then re-install the version on the website.

This post has been edited by LimitProof: Apr 10, 2008 @ 9:28 pm.

[bluefly]

Hey thanks for the recap script. It works great.

[B.F.P.]

Greasemonkey is "not found"-ing the recap script. Was it removed?

[LimitProof]

That's strange. I can still access it on my website without any problems.

This post has been edited by LimitProof: Apr 15, 2008 @ 4:23 pm.

[B.F.P.]

Sorry, I was talking about the "read the recap on one page" script.

[SP8472]

Yeah, the “recaps on one page” script was removed after the TWoP relaunch because it wasn't working anymore. Due to a personal request, I have reworked it for the new site layout, though.

I changed the name of the script and restartet the version counter from 0.1. You can find the new script here (link removed). It has not been extensively tested, so please inform me (by PM or eMail) of any problems you discover.

Also, the script doesn't fix the facts that TWoP puts the page breaks in very weird places, includes completely empty paragraphs at the start and end of each page, and sometimes tears apart paragraphs of text when placing page breaks. Those things will still look weird, they'll just look weird on one page.

This post has been edited by SP8472: Jun 14, 2008 @ 6:09 am.

[bluefly]

Hmmm, SP8472, I can't seem to get your script to work. I've disabled all my other scripts to see if there was some interference, but no dice. Thanks anyway.

[SP8472]

I've heard that from two people now, bluefly.

I have no idea what the problem could be, it just works for me. A “View as One Page” link inserted by the script appears next to the upper set of page links, and when clicked, the entire recap appears on one page, with a delay of a second or five because the other pages have to be retrieved from the server first.

If anyone for whom the script does not work could find any helpful information about that, such as error messages from the JavaScript console, I'd appreciate it. It's hard to find a bug in a script that doesn't not work for me, I'm sorry to say.

[LimitProof]

This might be a conflict with my Greasemonkey Recap script, which removes everything that modifies the main_content div. I notice that your RenderPage function uses the body_recap div, which is removed if my script runs.

I'm not sure if this is the cause for the specific problem bluefly is having, but I put in an update on my script to fix the problem.

Facelift Script Installation Page.

Especially important is the order in which the scripts are installed. If I install your script first and then mine, clicking on "View All in One Page" will take me to the homepage. But if I install my script first and then install yours, everything works fine. So for anyone wanting to install both scripts, make sure to follow the instructions on my website.

[SP8472]

As you may have read in “New Technical Issues”, the already weird page breaks in recaps have now been screwed up even more. (Looks like someone's doing a “heck of a job”, if you know what I mean. No, but seriously, I'm not trash-talking the TWoP Tech Guys. I'm sure they're doing the best they can, and bugs happens to the best of 'em.)

Anyway, not my script's fault, and my script does not attempt to fix it. I'm sure it will be corrected server-side soon.

LimitProof, I'm not sure what your facelift script does exactly, but from the looks of it, you're messing around with the pagetree quite heavily. The way the link I place works is that, as a pure HTML link, it actually points to the homepage, and then I slap an event handler on that thing to redirect any clicks to my code. If the symptom is that clicking actually takes someone to the homepage, the reason probably is that said event handler gets lost, which happens sometimes when stuff is manhandled around the pagetree. In that case, your suggestion to make sure that your script is executed first would probably work, assuming there are no other unwanted interactions between the two.

Thanks for mentioning that my script works for someone except me, by the way. At least I didn't break it for everybody.

[bluefly]

Hey SP8472, I uninstalled and the reinstalled your script and now it works. FYI, Limit Proof, I had disabled your script when I previously had tried SP8472's, so that wasn't the problem I was having. Thank you both for writing these.

[SP8472]

That's good to know, thanks for the update.