Discussion on Dinosaur Comics Easter Eggs NG | Userscripts.org

First Page and Archived Pages, replied by nimrodg

nimrodg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:36:32 +0000

The script as it is doesn't seem to work for me on the first page, but archived pages work. The difference is the small comment Ryan puts at the top of the first page some times, e.g: "merry christmas and happy holidays! dinosaur comics is in CRAZY RERUN MODE until the new year. i'm running some favourite strips from the mysterious past!"

I've made a small modification to the script locally which fixes the issue, but isn't terribly elegant:

--- dinosaur_comics_easter_e_old.user.js 2008-12-31 13:33:40.000000000 +0000
+++ dinosaur_comics_easter_e.user.js 2008-12-31 13:32:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
rss_title = rss_title.substring( 25, (rss_title.length - 8) );

var comic_img = $x("//span[@class='rss-content']/table/tbody/tr/td/center/font/img")[0];
+if (!comic_img) {
+ // Probably on first page. try to skip small comment.
+ comic_img = $x("//span[@class='rss-content']/table/tbody/tr/td/center/p/font/img")[0];
+}
var comic_title = comic_img.getAttribute( 'title' );

var comments_href = $x("//a[contains(@href, 'mailto')]")[0].href;

Archived Comments, replied by Quicksilver_Johny

Quicksilver_Johny — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:18:33 +0000

Hard to imagine Dinosaur Comics without this. When greasemonkey didn't work with Firefox 3 for a while there, I had to manually edit it's install.rdf just for this script. <3>

Archived Comments, replied by Ben Bleything

Ben Bleything — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:31:46 +0000

Now updated to include archive pages :)

Archived Comments, replied by Ben Bleything

Ben Bleything — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:48:45 +0000

(in the meantime, you can add qwantz.com/archive/* to your includes and it should start working)

Archived Comments, replied by Ben Bleything

Ben Bleything — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:48:14 +0000

Doh, you're right. That's because the script as uploaded isn't enabled for the archive pages. The one that's installed on my laptop is, but I apparently forgot to add it to the code here. Sorry about that.

I'll upload a new version when I get to work in the morning.

Archived Comments, replied by Hosferatu

Hosferatu — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:09:19 +0000

Doesn't work on archive pages it seems. Although the newest comic seems to always work fine until it gets archived.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:50 +0000

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