SALR: SA Last Read for Firefox: Better, Faster, Less Useful?

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duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Since someone is bound to ask, yes the forum update going on is screwing with quote coloring. It'll get fixed when things settle down.

# ? Apr 3, 2008 22:54

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# ? May 6, 2024 11:29

astral: Apr 26, 2004

RedKazan posted:

ClydeUmney posted:
This has been posted a couple of times, but not since last year, so I thought I would mention it. If you are looking at a single user's post in a thread (using the ? link), the mouse gestures don't work - they take you to the regular thread, not to the next page of their posts. Just an FYI...

You're right, I thought I had fixed that a while ago, but I guess not. Sorry, I'll try and fix that soon.

I'm having a similar (maybe related) problem browsing the comedy goldmine. For example, at this page, clicking forward or back in the SALR tray will take you to the right place, but a mouse gesture forward will alter the daysprune (mouse gesture back has the same problem) and take you here instead.

Edit: It looks like the SALR mouse gestures put daysprune=30 in no matter where you are. That seems unnecessary and, in the case of the Comedy Goldmine, problematic.

astral fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Apr 7, 2008

# ? Apr 4, 2008 00:53

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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New blockquote usercontent.css fix:

code:

/* Full Quotebox */

.bbc-block {
background-image: url('http://img.waffleimages.com/b7aa664b7c489496aa2aec651bbf973f8a1a5e80/pattern.png') ! important;
border: 2px inset ! important;
padding: 0px ! important;
}

/* Quote Header */

.bbc-block h4 {
background-color: #ffffff ! important;
background-image: url('http://img.waffleimages.com/e96e3d7703ee8ae8d3e61b7984a8c356ff598e01/cssimgquoteyw4.gif') ! important;
background-repeat: no-repeat ! important;
background-position: right ! important;
border: 2px outset ! important;
padding: 5px ! important;
width: auto ! important;
}

/* Quote Content */

.bbc-block blockquote {
background-color: transparent ! important;
border: none ! important;
padding: 5px ! important;
}

/* Code Header */

.bbc-block h5 {
background-color: #000000 ! important;
background-image: url('http://img.waffleimages.com/21123a93aa458c42931ee61030dc7d67d2761dbf/codefc9.png') ! important;
background-repeat: no-repeat ! important;
background-position: right ! important;
border: 2px outset ! important;
color: #00ff00 ! important;
padding: 5px ! important;
width: auto ! important;
}

/* Code Content */

.bbc-block code {
background-image: url('http://img.waffleimages.com/7355c972affa06dd32d3ef02e72960e625b71c5b/scanlines.png') ! important;
border: 2px outset ! important;
color: #00ff00 ! important;
padding: 5px ! important;
width: auto ! important;
}

Season to taste. Add 10 minutes to cooking time at high altitudes (>5000 ft).

edit: now with funky code colors and commenting!

edit2: NEW!!! Added some more stuffs.

VectorSigma fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Apr 6, 2008

# ? Apr 4, 2008 11:15

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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Anyone have any thoughts on the css?

# ? Apr 5, 2008 22:40

hooah: Feb 6, 2006; WTF?

the_ruiner posted:

Anyone have any thoughts on the css?

What's it do? You didn't really say, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't know what a blockquote is or what's wrong with it.

# ? Apr 5, 2008 23:36

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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hooah posted:

What's it do? You didn't really say, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't know what a blockquote is or what's wrong with it.

Put that code in your [WINDOWS DRIVE]:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[YOUR PROFILE]\chrome\userContent.css file and quote and code boxes will look like this:

I shortened the images so they'd fit that's why the seams.

# ? Apr 6, 2008 00:44

hooah: Feb 6, 2006; WTF?

Eh, it doesn't really fit the forums very well, in my opinion.

# ? Apr 6, 2008 00:50

Lollerich: Mar 25, 2004; The little doctors are back,
they want to play with you!

I like it, and I'm going to use it :colbert:

# ? Apr 6, 2008 01:37

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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hooah posted:

Eh, it doesn't really fit the forums very well, in my opinion.

Then change it!

Also note that with the construction of the new quote box, it will be possible to make all sorts of neat quote effects.

VectorSigma fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Apr 6, 2008

# ? Apr 6, 2008 01:46

sildenafil: Dec 17, 2004; They're just jealous.

Speaking of the new quote box, do we have an ETA on an update to fix quote coloring?

:love:

all you guys...I wish I had even a basic knowledge of coding :sigh:

the_ruiner: that looks pretty cool. anyway that could be incorporated into an update?

# ? Apr 6, 2008 03:15

Revolvyerom: Nov 12, 2005; Hell yes, tell him we're plenty front right now.

the_ruiner posted:

Then change it!

Also note that with the construction of the new quote box, it will be possible to make all sorts of neat quote effects.

A possible idea for an SALR feature?

It'd be pretty sweet to be able to customize formatting like that, though I don't know how big of a pain it would be to make it idiot-friendly like SALR tends to be.

# ? Apr 6, 2008 10:23

Bakanogami: Dec 31, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Using latest SALR and (I think) latest Firefox on a PowerPC Mac, it's acting kind of weird for me. I get the menu, which is working fine, but almost none of the other features seem to be working. No quick quote/reply, no coloring options outside of the ones the forums can do themselves, so on and so forth. Nothing I do in the preferences seems to fix this, anybody know why? It's actually been like this for a while, so I know it's nothing recent.

# ? Apr 6, 2008 22:41

Disgustipated: Jul 28, 2003; Black metal ist krieg

Bakanogami posted:

Using latest SALR and (I think) latest Firefox on a PowerPC Mac, it's acting kind of weird for me. I get the menu, which is working fine, but almost none of the other features seem to be working. No quick quote/reply, no coloring options outside of the ones the forums can do themselves, so on and so forth. Nothing I do in the preferences seems to fix this, anybody know why? It's actually been like this for a while, so I know it's nothing recent.

What version of Firefox? What version of SALR? 2.0.0.13 is the latest release of Firefox. The most current version of SALR is 1.99.080122. OP highlighting and username highlighting are both still working for me, so is quick reply/quote/edit/post. If you're having problems with quote highlighting, you should read this post: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=2571027&pagenumber=29#post341839010

# ? Apr 7, 2008 00:43

Bakanogami: Dec 31, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Disgustipated posted:

What version of Firefox? What version of SALR? 2.0.0.13 is the latest release of Firefox. The most current version of SALR is 1.99.080122. OP highlighting and username highlighting are both still working for me, so is quick reply/quote/edit/post. If you're having problems with quote highlighting, you should read this post: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=2571027&pagenumber=29#post341839010

Firefox and SALR are respectively 2.0.0.13 and 1.99.080122, yeah. And it's not just quote coloring. OP highlighting seems to be working, as are highlighting on persons of interest, but none of the other thread or forum coloring seems to be working. Neither does quick quote/reply. Whatever I seem to do in the options menu doesn't seem to effect anything at all.

This has been going on persistently for a while, too, it's not just something that came up recently. I've been kind of lax about seeing what the problem is. Maybe I should try uninstalling the addon and reinstalling it from scratch?

# ? Apr 7, 2008 04:05

kapinga: Oct 12, 2005; I am not a number

the_ruiner gave me the motivation to change up the quote/code boxes up in a completely different way. I dislike the forums new gray text for quotes, and I got to playing around from there.

It uses a 10% transparent picture (1x1) to get the stacking effect in the quotes. The paddings have also been adjusted quite a bit to condense everything down a little bit.

You can get the source code at this pastebin.

I'll try to stop derailing now, but I have no idea where else to put this stuff.

# ? Apr 7, 2008 04:34

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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On the subject of the usercontent.css, what code would be needed to add a background image to a post by a specific user? Modifying the old user highlighting css (from before it was integrated into the menu) no longer works.

# ? Apr 7, 2008 06:40

Zorilla: Mar 23, 2005; GOING APE SPIT

the_ruiner posted:

On the subject of the usercontent.css, what code would be needed to add a background image to a post by a specific user? Modifying the old user highlighting css (from before it was integrated into the menu) no longer works.

Each post table uses a group of classes unique to each user formed like "post salrPostBy<user id> salrPostBy<user name>". You can probably guess that these only exist with SALR installed and working. So, if you wanted to make all posts by Two Worlds feces brown, you'd do something like this:

code:

.salrPostByTwo Worlds td {
	background-color: #6b5216 !important;
}

This is a million times easier if you install Firebug and write the CSS based on the information it gives you. Changes to the page made by SALR after the page loads do not show up if you try to view the HTML source normally.

Zorilla fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Apr 7, 2008

# ? Apr 7, 2008 08:00

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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Zorilla posted:

install Firebug

Thanks! I found what I needed:

code:

table.salrPostBy<USERID#> td {
background-image: url('<IMAGE URL>') ! important;
}

This adds a bg image to a specific poster.

edit: fixed again

VectorSigma fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Apr 7, 2008

# ? Apr 7, 2008 09:22

Revolvyerom: Nov 12, 2005; Hell yes, tell him we're plenty front right now.

kapinga posted:

the_ruiner gave me the motivation to change up the quote/code boxes up in a completely different way. I dislike the forums new gray text for quotes, and I got to playing around from there.

It uses a 10% transparent picture (1x1) to get the stacking effect in the quotes. The paddings have also been adjusted quite a bit to condense everything down a little bit.

You can get the source code at this pastebin.

I'll try to stop derailing now, but I have no idea where else to put this stuff.

This, right here, is so nice, and very classy. Sold! Thanks

# ? Apr 7, 2008 10:14

Zorilla: Mar 23, 2005; GOING APE SPIT

the_ruiner posted:

Thanks! I found what I needed:

code:

table.salrPostBy<USERID#> td,
table.salrPostBy<USERID#> tr.seen1 td,
table.salrPostBy<USERID#> tr.seen2 td {
background-image: url('<IMAGE URL>') ! important;
}

Unless I'm missing something, the last two items are redundant to the first. (the first will select all td items that are a child of table.salrPostBy<USERID#>, no matter how deeply nested)

# ? Apr 7, 2008 19:33

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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I had originally tried that and it didn't work. I gave it another go, and now it did. I probably mistyped a colon/semicolon and didn't notice. Wouldn't be the first time.

Thanks again for pointing me towards Firebug. I just wish I had something as easy to use 7 years ago when I had more worthwhile things to do with CSS than highlighting the posts of obnoxious forum goers with stupid pictures.

# ? Apr 7, 2008 19:49

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Zorilla posted:

Unless I'm missing something, the last two items are redundant to the first. (the first will select all td items that are a child of table.salrPostBy<USERID#>, no matter how deeply nested)

Yes, but the latter two have a higher priority then the first.

# ? Apr 7, 2008 20:28

Zorilla: Mar 23, 2005; GOING APE SPIT

duz posted:

Yes, but the latter two have a higher priority then the first.

Yeah, but it would be pointless in this case since all use the same properties. The last two aren't overriding anything the first is doing.

# ? Apr 7, 2008 20:42

Daaku Shinsei: Feb 26, 2003

Since FF3 Beta 5 has come out, SALR has been doing a very odd thing for me. It works, just fine, for the most part. However, it sometimes does not display settings until I close and reopen the settings panel. It also moves where the SA menu is, and this movement causes my navbar to completely disappear. The default is to show up right before the Help menu, yes? If it shows up there, no back/forward/urlbar/searchbar. If it shows up to the right of Help, everything works hunkydory. However, it only shows up to the right of Help if I enable/disable an extension, doesn't matter what, and even if it is the only extension enabled. Could be that I have the navbar stuff up on the menubar, to make more room, but I really don't know. And it's in an FF beta, so it could be anything.

# ? Apr 9, 2008 08:18

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Daaku Shinsei posted:

Since FF3 Beta 5 has come out, SALR has been doing a very odd thing for me. It works, just fine, for the most part. However, it sometimes does not display settings until I close and reopen the settings panel. It also moves where the SA menu is, and this movement causes my navbar to completely disappear. The default is to show up right before the Help menu, yes? If it shows up there, no back/forward/urlbar/searchbar. If it shows up to the right of Help, everything works hunkydory. However, it only shows up to the right of Help if I enable/disable an extension, doesn't matter what, and even if it is the only extension enabled. Could be that I have the navbar stuff up on the menubar, to make more room, but I really don't know. And it's in an FF beta, so it could be anything.

Yeah, the settings are acting weird for some reason. Havn't figured it out yet. The menubar stuff is new, no idea what could be causing that.

# ? Apr 9, 2008 17:09

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

Outside of disabling SALR or opening it in a different browser, is there any way to bypass the override on the support page? It's rather annoying when I have a legitimate reason for emailing support and I can't even see the drat page.

# ? Apr 10, 2008 00:20

Harmonica: May 18, 2004; il cinema è la vita e viceversa

I've only just reinstalled SALR on a new computer. Could anyone tell me if it's possible to find and re-input the IDs and descriptions of users that I had highlighted on my other computer - given that I can access the firefox profile folder and all that.

I've had a look around and managed to find the other settings like thread colouring, but no luck on user tracking.

# ? Apr 10, 2008 00:50

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

m2pt5 posted:

Outside of disabling SALR or opening it in a different browser, is there any way to bypass the override on the support page? It's rather annoying when I have a legitimate reason for emailing support and I can't even see the drat page.

You can set extensions.salastread.disabled to true to disable SALR without restarting the browser.

Harmonica posted:

I've only just reinstalled SALR on a new computer. Could anyone tell me if it's possible to find and re-input the IDs and descriptions of users that I had highlighted on my other computer - given that I can access the firefox profile folder and all that.

I've had a look around and managed to find the other settings like thread colouring, but no luck on user tracking.

There's a file in your profile called salastread.sqlite that contains all that info.

# ? Apr 10, 2008 02:05

ClydeUmney: May 13, 2004; One can hardly ignore the Taoist implications of "Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling."

duz posted:

You can set extensions.salastread.disabled to true to disable SALR without restarting the browser.

Given that most of what SALR does is now on the forums end, and most of the settings it now uses are controlled more directly by the users, do you think it might be time to disable that screen? I know it was a big issue for a while with people being idiots, but that may have stopped thanks to the change in usage.

Alternatively, have you considered adding a link to the bottom of the screen saying something like "If you KNOW this isn't an SALR issue, click here to continue, and risk being banned for asking about SALR like the big idiot you are"?

Like I said, I know exactly why the screen went up, and I don't disagree with it, but I wonder if the change in what the extension does might result in the reduction of that screen's usefulness.

# ? Apr 10, 2008 02:12

Daaku Shinsei: Feb 26, 2003

duz posted:

Yeah, the settings are acting weird for some reason. Havn't figured it out yet. The menubar stuff is new, no idea what could be causing that.

Strange thing is, it didn't do it in Beta 4. So something changed between the two, and has stuck around in the nightlies since 5.

# ? Apr 10, 2008 09:38

JamesOff: Dec 12, 2002; What a frightening beast!

kapinga posted:

the_ruiner gave me the motivation to change up the quote/code boxes up in a completely different way. I dislike the forums new gray text for quotes, and I got to playing around from there.

[snip]

Using this now, it looks great

I put it in a rule in Stylish rather than in directly in my userChrome.css, and it's working fine.

# ? Apr 10, 2008 11:28

Harmonica: May 18, 2004; il cinema è la vita e viceversa

duz posted:

There's a file in your profile called salastread.sqlite that contains all that info [about user's IDs and their notes].

Cheers for that. I had to use 'SQLite Database Browser' to actually see what the data was, in case anyone else has the same problem.

~~I have a question about editing some of the forum's CSS.~~ If I wanted to make seen threads in the thread lists have a blue background with white link text (active/hover/visited), would I apply style to the table row class 'tr.seen thread*'? Can I use wildcards in CSS like that?

I have very rudimentary knowledge of CSS, and I can't work out how to change the link colour for links in seen thread rows! The background colour I can obviously change in SALR's own options.

Would it be possible (or an idea) to add the ability to customise the link colour of seen and unseen threads?

edit: solved my own problem, I don't think the wildcards were helping.

code:

tr.thread.seen a {
color: #fff ! important;
}

tr.thread.seen a:hover {
color: blue ! important;
background-color: white ! important;
}

Need to sort out the colours but that makes link text in seen thread rows white, with a hover inversion.

Harmonica fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 12, 2008

# ? Apr 12, 2008 02:16

kapinga: Oct 12, 2005; I am not a number

Harmonica posted:

Cheers for that. I had to use 'SQLite Database Browser' to actually see what the data was, in case anyone else has the same problem.

~~I have a question about editing some of the forum's CSS.~~ If I wanted to make seen threads in the thread lists have a blue background with white link text (active/hover/visited), would I apply style to the table row class 'tr.seen thread*'? Can I use wildcards in CSS like that?

I have very rudimentary knowledge of CSS, and I can't work out how to change the link colour for links in seen thread rows! The background colour I can obviously change in SALR's own options.

Would it be possible (or an idea) to add the ability to customise the link colour of seen and unseen threads?

edit: solved my own problem, I don't think the wildcards were helping.
code:
tr.thread.seen a {
color: #fff ! important;
}

tr.thread.seen a:hover {
color: blue ! important;
background-color: white ! important;
}
Need to sort out the colours but that makes link text in seen thread rows white, with a hover inversion.

Here's the relevant code from http://forums.somethingawful.com/css/main.css

code:

/* seen */
tr.thread.seen td { background-color:#dbe8f5!important; }
tr.thread.seen td.icon, tr.thread.seen td.author,
tr.thread.seen td.views, tr.thread.seen td.lastpost { background-color:#ced6e3!important; }

You already got how to change the color of links, this will get you backgrounds and any text coloring you want.

# ? Apr 12, 2008 03:32

Harmonica: May 18, 2004; il cinema è la vita e viceversa

Ah, great. It turned out a little too garish so I'll change the colours, but in practice it makes browsing a little easier (especially on the late-night caffeine trip).

# ? Apr 12, 2008 03:35

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

I think this might have been brought up before but I can't remember. Anchoring the thread to the latest post doesn't seem to be working correctly. I also have salr set to load images from links, so I suspect what's happening is that it's attempting to anchor before those images have finished loading, then when they do finish, that messes up the anchor. Is it possible to detect when everything is done, and delay ONLY the page anchor feature until then?

# ? Apr 12, 2008 20:14

hooah: Feb 6, 2006; WTF?

Factor Mystic posted:

I think this might have been brought up before but I can't remember. Anchoring the thread to the latest post doesn't seem to be working correctly. I also have salr set to load images from links, so I suspect what's happening is that it's attempting to anchor before those images have finished loading, then when they do finish, that messes up the anchor. Is it possible to detect when everything is done, and delay ONLY the page anchor feature until then?

I've noticed SALR's been having trouble with this in some threads, too. For example, in the XP Beautification thread, it's been anchoring to a specific post on the last page for a while. I can't remember if I'm supposed to have the similar feature in the User Settings of the forums themselves on or off though, so that might be something (it's currently off).

# ? Apr 12, 2008 20:19

ClydeUmney: May 13, 2004; One can hardly ignore the Taoist implications of "Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling."

For some reason, when I use the page navigation in the comedy goldmine (not in a thread, in the index), it doesn't go to the second page of threads; it brings back up the first page, but keeps all the other pages from being displayed. It doesn't even show the "Page 1 2 3" thing; it's as if they're all gone. Does that make any sense?

# ? Apr 12, 2008 23:14

Harmonica: May 18, 2004; il cinema è la vita e viceversa

I don't know how you guys have your Firefox set up, but personally I have a folder with a load of SA threads on my bookmark toolbar, and I find clicking the '#' next to the last post in a thread and bookmarking (with the 'Update Bookmark' extension - right click a bookmark to change it to the Current URL) is a much easier way to browse threads.

# ? Apr 13, 2008 01:29

HellsEmbrace: Jul 14, 2004

Someone posted a long time ago with a way to make it so you can have the X for closing tabs in firefox appear on the right side of the tab bar, rather than having an X for each tab. Could someone tell me how to do this? I'm not sure how related this is to SALR but I'm almost sure I read how to do it here the first time, so I thought I'd ask again. Thanks.

# ? Apr 13, 2008 07:12

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# ? May 6, 2024 11:29

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

HellsEmbrace posted:

Someone posted a long time ago with a way to make it so you can have the X for closing tabs in firefox appear on the right side of the tab bar, rather than having an X for each tab. Could someone tell me how to do this? I'm not sure how related this is to SALR but I'm almost sure I read how to do it here the first time, so I thought I'd ask again. Thanks.

Change browser.tabs.closeButtons to 3 to put it on the side, 2 to remove it entirely.

# ? Apr 13, 2008 07:32

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