LJ Juggler Update!

[rushin_doll]

Google Chrome has continued to move along, adding new features, and finally LJ Juggler has caught up. With a few of the new Chrome APIs, I've been able to massively overhaul the extension. It now uses the same authentication methods that ljlogin for Firefox does. (Again, huge thanks to the people behind that for being open-source. Bouncing

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[ceitfianna]

I've been curious about Chrome, once I figure out my current fiddly computer thing. I might try this out.

[rushin_doll]

Let me know what you think, and if you run into any problems!

Hugs,
Ana

[unresolved]

I still think you're amazing for developing this. Thank you! :)

[rushin_doll]

Heh. Thanks. Of course, like most hacker projects, this one was pretty selfish. I needed a login extension, so I figured I'd write one up. And once that was done, might as well share it, right?

The downside of that is that I'm really slow at adding new features (like, it wouldn't be hard to add InsaneJournal support, but since I don't need it, it hasn't happened yet...)

Glad you like it, though!
Ana

[rushin_doll]

You owe me a dollar.

Out of place quotes for the win,
Ana

[lienne]

A few fairly trivial cosmetic issues:

When I am logged out and mouseover a username, and then move the mouse off it again, it stays highlighted.

When I am logged in and mouseover a username, it de-highlights if I move the mouse onto a different username or the Logout button, but stays highlighted if I move the mouse away from the menu entirely. (This one is less of an issue.)

The Logout option highlights in the text, while the username choices highlight in the icon beside the text-peculiar and non-intuitive to me. (This one is even less of an issue.)

[lienne]

Oh, and the logged-in username highlights just like a not-logged-in username. This led to a few "am I logged in or not?" existential uncertainty moments.

[rushin_doll]

Heh. Interestingly enough, these points where made by metanomaly when she put together the graphics. She just did the assets and wrote some CSS, but the highlight code is back-end-y and I originally wrote it the way it is before A) we had graphical assets, and B) with a plan (still in place) to one day add keyboard navigation. With keyboard navigation you want the highlighting to stay in place even with no mouse. Of course, at the moment, it's not implemented, so there's definitely some confusion on that one. So! I'll keep these in mind for the next update, and I seriously appreciate the feedback!

It's always good to have people who are actually using things tell you what could be better! If you have any other thoughts, do let me know!

Yay thingy,
Ana

[lienne]

After the update:

Unfortunately, I literally can't see the logged-in account highlighting now-the difference in text colour is only visible if I put my face near the computer and squint, at which point I discover that the non-logged-in accounts are changing text colour too! Magic! The highlight on the logout option is good, though. *thumbs up*

I Photoshopped an example of a highlight I would personally find intuitive:

[hlycrpflygappls]

Man, at first I was just grateful Juggler existed, now it's gotten awesome all of a sudden.

Just wanted to say thanks so much for creating/maintaining/improving this! :D (It's made this RPer's life much easier after Firefox failed epicly one day and I had to switch to Chrome.)

[rushin_doll]

I'm glad you're liking it. I put it together for me, so it's always a bit of a surprise to me when someone mentions they use it. I'm all 'wait, what? oh, right, anyone can install it'.

Feedback is nice,
Ana