modding del.icio.us, part one.

May 05, 2008 20:39

While I was writing my last ridiculously long post, it occurred to me that my my Firefox is insanely modded, and my del.icio.us is insanely modded, and that maybe I should write a post discussing the things we can do to make del.icio.using easier. I am on a Mac, using Firefox 2.0.0.14. This post is full of screenshots, CSS and javascript ( Read more... )

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murklins May 8 2008, 20:53:34 UTC
I don't mod del.icio.us itself much anymore, though I used to. I do mod the bundle management page and the posting interface, though, so I'll talk about those.

The bundle management page

In my personal account, I like to keep everything bundled. I haven't done any bundling in a while, though, so there are many orphan tags hanging around. Without modification the bundle management page is styled such that unbundled tags are hard to pick out. Unbundled tags are the ones that are not outlined:


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murklins May 16 2008, 18:41:55 UTC
Oh, man! I am not done. I just recently wrote a GM script that makes any tags with forward slashes in them stand out. This is totally useful for fanfic links, because when you're scanning down a page with lots of different fandoms or pairings, the link titles don't always have that info in them, and the tags are generally in any old order, so figuring out what each link is about can be slow & hard on the eyes. We pretty much universally use the forward slash in pairing tags, though, which means that it's possible to programmatically identify them just by looking for that slash. Then you can style them to pop out a bit: preview image.

You can install the script from here. I'm still sort of testing it out as I use different parts of the del.icio.us site.

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murklins May 18 2008, 06:18:59 UTC
Ahaha, I totally thought I was making these comments into the void -- this post is SO OLD and I am TALKING TO MYSELF. I should have had more faith in everyone's obsession. :)

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catechism May 18 2008, 06:23:14 UTC
You are not talking to yourself! You are talking to me!

Though, I guess, many times, that is an awful lot like talking to yourself. Hmmm.

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wistfuljane May 20 2008, 02:11:57 UTC
Finally tested this out - and btw, it works on Opera too, yay! Now that I know a faster way to edit a GM script by navigating the GreaseMonkey menu itself, I customized the emboldener links so that they would be something other than bright blue and fit better with my del.icio.us skin:

Right-click GM icon > click "Manage User Scripts..." > select "slashtagemboldener" & click Edit at the bottom > edit this part with the html code of the color of your choice: tag_a.style.color = "#00f";

Yay, you are awesome, murklins! Thank you!

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murklins May 20 2008, 03:05:28 UTC
Yeah, that Edit button is so handy! I am always messing with things that way. (Like today, when I made this hideous but functional replacement to the Thread Unfolder script that *just* adds an Expand All option, since the Expand links that LJ provides now make the individual Unfold links unnecessary. What did I do before GM? My life browsing experience must have been so limited.)

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