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Wanted buttons at the bottom of comics...
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:29 pm
by ph3rny
... so I wrote a greasemonkey script and thought I'd share if anyone else felt the same way...
I've only tested in firefox, but it should be easily adaptable to other browsers:
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// ==UserScript==
// @name SMBC Buttons
// @description Adds the next/previous/random buttons at the bottom
// @include http://www.smbc-comics.com/*
// @version 1
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
var nextButtons = document.querySelectorAll('img[usemap="#buttons"]')[0],
lineBreak = document.createElement('br'),
newNextButtons = nextButtons.cloneNode(true),
comicTable = nextButtons.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling;
// make sure nothing is wrong
if (!nextButtons || !comicTable || comicTable.nodeName.toUpperCase() !== 'TABLE') {
alert('something went wrong');
}
// insert a line break first
comicTable.parentNode.insertBefore(lineBreak, comicTable.nextSibling);
// then a copy of the buttons image
comicTable.parentNode.insertBefore(newNextButtons, comicTable.nextSibling);
} ());
Re: Wanted buttons at the bottom of comics...
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:58 pm
by Sandwiches
Well done very creative
although you can use z,x,c as back, random, forward. Maybe that is even more convenient than your script.
Re: Wanted buttons at the bottom of comics...
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:22 am
by sotic
Huh, I didn't know Javascript had this. Neat
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var nextButtons = document.querySelectorAll('img[usemap="#buttons"]')[0],
// ...
comicTable = nextButtons.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling;
I can't think of a better way to do this, but if the page's DOM layout ever changes you'll have to figure out how many siblings to skip over again. For the time being, comicTable = nextButtons.parentNode.childNodes[4] would be more readable. And you could even say var parent = nextButtons.parentNode, comicTable = parent.childNodes[4]; then you would have a direct reference to use down here instead of comicTable.parentNode:
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// insert a line break first
comicTable.parentNode.insertBefore(lineBreak, comicTable.nextSibling);
// then a copy of the buttons image
comicTable.parentNode.insertBefore(newNextButtons, comicTable.nextSibling);
This is bad commenting. Not terrible or malicious, thanks to the simple nature of the problem, but good statements and variable names speak for themselves. Superfluous commenting is just another opportunity to confuse the reader if anything changes later.
Anyway, it gets the job done and I don't see room for error--alert()s are obnoxious but it seems like that one'll come up only when the DOM layout changes. But the z, x and c keys work just as well if you're using a Qwerty keyboard.
Re: Wanted buttons at the bottom of comics...
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:57 am
by Lethal Interjection
sotic wrote: But the z, x and c keys work just as well if you're using a Qwerty keyboard.
Damn my choice of the Dvorak Simplified!
Re: Wanted buttons at the bottom of comics...
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by RussellBrand
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