• lazy web fan says:

    great idea about the bash script, why not ping lazyweb.org with your request, and maybe someone will come up with something ;-)

    This comment was posted on 7 April 2005 at 11:37

  • Michael says:

    Hey,

    I notice that your UPS Linkify is the origin of http://scripts.slightlyinsane.com/tracking.linkify.user.js which added FedEx and USPS tracking. Pretty cool–but the problem it has is that there are conflicts between some of the tracking numbers–that is some patters could be say, UPS and USPS. So I spoke with the author of that script and came up with an idea for adding a drop down menu to allow the user to choose which link is appropriate. You can see an example here http://www.thebiermans.net/GreaseMonkey/links.html Neither Justin (the author of the enhancement on your script) or I have had a chance to integrate this change so we thought we’d propose it to you to see if we can merge all three ideas into one source base?

    The code above was borrowed from http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm

    The code may be a bit overkill, I haven’t had time to see what can be paired down.

    Oh one other thing–it might be nice to add DHL tracking too.

    “…Tracking numbers may be up to 11 digits in length. Please enter one number per line.”
    http://track.dhl-usa.com/help/TrackHelp.asp?helpID=a

    So it looks like there is another UPS conflict. Too bad these guys don’t precede their tracking numbers with a TLA like “UPS9999 9999 999″

    The tracking URL is http://track.dhl-usa.com/trackbynbr.asp

    Look forward to your thoughts.

    Michael

    This comment was posted on 7 April 2005 at 15:58

  • Logan says:

    Yeah, I just noticed the other day that someone had added FedEx, etc, tracking to the UPS script. It’s a good idea, but you do run into the problem with overlap. I’ve also seen problems on bn.com, where they list ISBN numbers with no dashes, so they’re sometimes interpreted as 12-digit UPS tracking numbers. A universal tracking scheme would be pretty nice, but how likely is it that UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc would change their systems for some web hackers? :/

    That dropdown idea is pretty cool, though. That would be great. Let me see what I can come up with.

    This comment was posted on 8 April 2005 at 09:11

  • Jerry Kindall says:

    The MetaFilter script needs to not do its thing unless the front page is being viewed by date. If it’s being viewed in any other way, a lot of spurious “missing thread” links are generated. To solve this, I added a wrapper around the for loop:

    if (document.forms[0].sortby.value == “date”) { … }

    This comment was posted on 8 April 2005 at 14:02

  • Jerry Kindall says:

    Also, I added the following URLs to the default include list, so when you switch to Date from another view you get the missing thread links correctly:

    // @include http://metafilter.com/index.cfm?sortby=date
    // @include http://www.metafilter.com/index.cfm?sortby=date

    This comment was posted on 8 April 2005 at 14:09

  • Logan says:

    Jerry: I thought of that myself, but when I went to the non-date-sorted pages, the URL was different, and thus the user script didn’t run. Was I mistaken? Did the Greasemonkey behavior change? Is there a way (other than changing the URL) to resort the front page?

    I can’t get to Metafilter right now (it’s down, or maybe work is doing something funky with blocking it) to test..

    Thanks for the input, though. I should add that stuff anyhow, just in case the behavior of Mefi or Greasemonkey changes.

    This comment was posted on 8 April 2005 at 14:51

  • Jerry Kindall says:

    MetaFilter uses a cookie to remember the sort order for the front page. This order will be applied the next time you go to http://www.metafilter.com. I leave mine set to “recent comments.”

    This comment was posted on 8 April 2005 at 16:14

  • Jerry Kindall says:

    Here is one I came up with for MetaFilter.

    This comment was posted on 9 May 2005 at 19:06

  • tienyou says:

    I have something rather specific, maybe someone could help me. I use “My yahoo!” http://my.yahoo.com. On my personalized page, along with headlines from the NY Times, etc., are some headlines in Chinese characters. Problem is the page loads in UTF-8 encoding, but the Chinese headlines are in Big5 encoding. The HTML contains this META tag in the HEAD:

    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″>

    I just need to change it to:
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=big5″>

    How can I do this? One further problem is that it refreshes the page every 15 minutes:
    <meta http-equiv=Refresh content=”900;url=http://my.yahoo.com/p/d.html”>

    which sets it BACK to UTF-8 encoding just in case I manually changed the encoding.

    This comment was posted on 11 May 2005 at 15:13

  • Shane says:

    Very cool idea for quotes. I checked out bash and it’s hilarious! So, my question is, would you just select the text to create a quote? I created a pretty cool plugin for Craig’s List that lets you see all of the images within your search results. Try it out and you’ll see what I mean. It works with all every kind of posting.

    Here’s the link:
    Show Images Inline for Craig’s List

    This comment was posted on 17 May 2005 at 12:57

  • D_Generic says:

    A Metafilter greasemonkey script I’d really love to see is a “killfile” script that puts a little “killfile me” link next to user names - a couple of clicks to shorten that long interesting thread by a few trolls and flamers would be quite pleasing…

    This comment was posted on 8 July 2005 at 23:25